Qualla: Quandamooka People https://qualla.com/quandamooka-people en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:28 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/n/5/quandamooka-people-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Quandamooka People https://qualla.com/quandamooka-people Quandamooka People: Introduction https://qualla.com/quandamooka-people/ Photo credit J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0. On a clear day the sand cliffs of Minjerribah glow gold above the blue of Moreton Bay, and the people who named this place are still here to see it. The Quandamooka are the Aboriginal people of the bay's eastern islands and waters, in southeast Queensland just across from Brisbane, and they are not a chapter that closed. They are a living people: three connected groups, the Nunukul, the Goenpul, and the Ngugi, whose ancestors have walked and fished this Country for at least 18,000 years, and quite possibly far longer. The word Quandamooka itself holds the southern bay, its islands, its tides, and its shores, all of it bound together as one homeland.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/n/5/quandamooka-people-wp/r5n5-quandamooka-people-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Quandamooka People: People of the Bay https://qualla.com/quandamooka-people/ Photo credit J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0. Quandamooka life moved with the water. Families travelled by canoe across Moreton Bay to spear and net mullet, and to hunt dugong and sea turtle, the dugong especially prized for its meat and its oil. The work of the sea and the land was shared along clear lines: men fished and h...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/n/5/quandamooka-people-wp/r5n5-quandamooka-people-people-of-the-bay.mp3 0:06 2 full Quandamooka People: The Newcomers https://qualla.com/quandamooka-people/ Photo credit J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0. The first European the Quandamooka met came by sea. In 1799 the navigator Matthew Flinders spent several weeks charting Moreton Bay, and in the years that followed the bay people sometimes rescued and cared for shipwrecked convicts cast up on their shores. Then, in 1824, the colo...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/n/5/quandamooka-people-wp/r5n5-quandamooka-people-the-newcomers.mp3 0:06 3 full Quandamooka People: Endurance and Voice https://qualla.com/quandamooka-people/ Photo credit J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0. Through all of it, the Quandamooka kept their culture and produced some of Aboriginal Australia's most powerful voices. Oodgeroo Noonuccal, born on Minjerribah in 1920, published We Are Going in 1964, the first book of poetry by an Aboriginal Australian and one of the fastest-sel...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/n/5/quandamooka-people-wp/r5n5-quandamooka-people-endurance-and-voice.mp3 0:06 4 full Quandamooka People: Country Returned https://qualla.com/quandamooka-people/ Photo credit J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 4 July 2011, after a legal battle that ran 16 years, the Quandamooka people were recognised as the native title holders of their Country: some 568 square kilometres covering most of Minjerribah, many smaller islands, and the bay waters around them. It was the first native titl...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/5/n/5/quandamooka-people-wp/r5n5-quandamooka-people-country-returned.mp3 0:06 5 full Quandamooka People: A Living Homeland https://qualla.com/quandamooka-people/ Photo credit J Brew, CC BY-SA 2.0. Today the Quandamooka are caretakers of their own Country once more, ranger teams and Elders working the land and sea their ancestors knew, the bay still feeding the families who belong to it. Minjerribah draws visitors to its beaches and headlands, but for the Quandamooka it has...

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