The Turrbal People

The Turrbal people were one of the original Australian inhabitancies that lived Brisbane and southeast Queensland before the European settlement in 1825. When the Europeans came, they gave the Turrbal people the nickname ‘Duke of Yorks Clan’. There were two European explorers, Oxley and Cunningham that met some members of the Turrbal people at the mouth of Breakfast Creek in 1824. That was where some of the Europeans were staying at the time, this was the first time the Europeans and the Turrbal people met. The Turrbal people were fisherman and lived off the Brisbane River. Later on, when Tom Petrie was just a small boy in the 1850s, he observed a large gathering of Turrbal people at Roma Street. It was the largest gathering by aboriginals due to the expansion of Brisbane. By 1900s most were forced to move to missions outside of Brisbane.

Referencing: http://www.dakibudtcha.com.au; SOSE Booklet;