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John Wenitong is a Queensland writer, poet and singer who lives in Yeppoon.

Eve Fesl is a member of the Gubbi Gubbi clan (maternal) and the Gangulu clan (paternal). She grew up on a sheep station in south-west Queensland. Although Fesl dropped out of education in primary school she went on to become the first Indigenous Australian to receive a PhD from an Australian university (in 1989). She also holds an honours degree in anthropology and a graduate diploma in international law

A champion athlete, she represented Queensland, Victoria and Australia in discus and sprinting.

Fesl has served as a lecturer in the Oodgeroo Unit, Queensland University of Technology; the Director of the Aboriginal Research Centre, Monash University; Senior Lecturer at the Gippsland Institute of Advanced Education; Associate Professor at Griffith University. Her field of expertise is in providing Indigenous language education programmes to Indigenous school children.

Fesl has also been a strong advocate for land rights, especially in regards to the proposed Traveston Dam.

Alethea Beetson, kabi kabi and Wiradjuri, is the artistic director of Digi Youth Arts; the First Nations Producer of the music festival BIGSOUND; and the First Nations Producer of Horizon Festival. Alethea has previously worked as an Indigenous Engagement Coordinator the Queensland Museum, and has extensively with communities. In 2019, Alethea was the Museum of Brisbane's Artist-in-Residence.

Alethea scripted an adaptation of Alexis Wright's Carpentaria, which has been performed at multiple Brisbane Writers Festivals.

Alethea is the niece of footballer, Arthur Beetson.

Paddy Jerome is from the people of Undumbi from the coast to Samford, north west of Brisbane, Queensland.

Christine Stuart, an Indigenous Community advisor with Sunshine Coast schools, directs her focus on the history of the Gubbi Gubbi people and their language. She is the sister of Susan Clark.

Susan Clark an early educator and writer is Christine Stuart's sister.

Yasmin Smith has worked as a black&write! editor and at the University of Queensland Press. She is of South Sea Islander, Northern Cheyenne, Kabi Kabi and English heritage.

In 2023, she was one of five First Nations delegates to attend the Auckland Writers Festival as part of the Australia Council First Nations Literature Cultural Exchange delegation.

Actor Zac Martin is known for Backroads and his role in Basically Black.

Johnny Campbell was a known bushranger during the period of the first contact with Europeans in south-east Queensland. He was captured and hanged in 1880.

Bianca Clark, an illustrator and business owner, is the sister of Susan Clark and Christine Stuart.

'Butchulla & Kabi Kabi man Aidan Rowlingson is an emerging multidisciplinary artist and producer based on Jagera and Turrabal country in so-called Brisbane who interprets the world around him through acting, writing, visual art, and directing. Aidan creates and produces LGBTQIA+ First Nation performances and creative developments.'

Source: Yellamundie Festival 2021.