Mrs Dixon contributed to Caroline Kelly's anthropological research conducted at Kempsey (Burnt Bridge Mission) during the early 1930s.

Mrs Semple contributed to Caroline Kelly's anthropological research conducted at Kempsey (Burnt Bridge Mission) during the early 1930s.

Established in 1884 by the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Mission was situated on the South-West side of Thursday Island. The administration of the Mission was handed over to the State Government of Queensland around 1984. Since 1994 the Torres Strait Council has administered Thursday Island.

Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia Queensland Branch (BWIU) (195?- ). Registered as the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Joiners, Bricklayers and Plasters of Australasia, Queensland.
Objectives - To uphold the right of combination of labor, and to improve, protect and foster the best interests of the members and to assist them to obtain their rights under industrial and social legislation; to regulate the conditions under which all members may be employed; to join with other organizations with similar objectives, to establish a fund to support trade unionists; to organize the education of the members; to publish a journal and to further any schemes to establish labor research bureaux or union newspapers or radio stations; to establish various benefits for members; to render legal and other assistance to members for the recovery of wages or compensation for injuries, to protect the interests of the trade in all its Branches, and to assist other trades by any legal method.
Publicists - See The Building Worker and the Official Trades Union Directory (Trades and Labor Council of Queensland).
Notes: Carpenters formed a union in Queensland as early as 1861, eventually forming the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners of Australasia, Queensland Branch. Amalgamations led to changes of name in 1974 to Amalgamated Society of Carpenters, Joiners and Bricklayers of Australasia, Queensland Branch and in 1982 to the present name. The union is known not by its registered name but as the Building Workers' Industrial Union of Australia, Queensland Branch The B.W.I.U. is part of the Queensland Building Trades Group which includes the Operative Painters and Decorators' Union, the Australian Building Construction Employees' and Builders Laborers' Federation and the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees' Union.

Born in Glen Innes NSW, became a mining engineer. Ordained as a priest in 1960 and while serving in various parishes in NSW contributed to labour rights, anti-Vietnam, anti-apartheid, and social justice campaigns. Served as assistant secretary of the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace from 1975 to 1978. Resigned from the priesthood in 1983. Later he and partner Lilla Watson worked for Aboriginal social justice and reconciliation in Brisbane.

Charles George Fryer was born on 2 Jul 1889. Charles was killed in action in France in the First World War on 5 Apr 1917.

A conference in Adelaide in 1958 resulted in the formation of the Federal Council for Aboriginal Advancement. In 1964, the organisation was renamed to include Torres Strait Islanders in the title. Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) was formed to advance the rights of Aborigines. The Council included Aboriginal Advancement organisations, unions and church organisations. One of their most successful campaigns was the 1967 Referendum campaign. In March 1978 FCAATSI changed its name to the National Aboriginal and Islander Liberation Movement. This organisation never met and it was disbanded after the federal government cut funding in 1978.

Percy Frank Hockings was born on 19 October 1867, son of Albert John Hockings and Elizabeth Hockings (Bailey). Percy trained as an architect, although he rarely practised as an architect. He was an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architecture. He and his brother Edwin Morton Hockings, were widely travelled, collecting drawings and paintings. Reginal Hockings was a cousin. He died on 24 July 1950.