The Aurukun Mission opened in 1904 and was run by the Presbyterian Church . It was situated south of Weipa in far north Queensland.

Mavis Thorpe Clark was born on 26 June 1909 in Melbourne, Victoria. Writer of primarily children's fiction. She died on 8 July 1999.

Elizabeth Magda MacFarlane, regarded as an author from the United Kingdome was a Ukrainian-born physician and author. She wrote under the pseudonym Madelaine Duke, Maxim Donne, Leslie Heron, and Alex Duncan.

Writer and producer.

Elizabeth Blewett was born as Elsie Melville Blewett in Northcote, Victoria. Known as 'Bill' to her family, she was educated at Ivanhoe Grammar School and the University of Melbourne. She pursued a career as teacher, served as a headmistress for thirteen years and was a co-principal of "Merry Days", a correspondence school for kindergarten and sub-primary school children which she ran with her sister Rowena. In 1951 she moved to London with her sister, the writer and literary agent, Dorothy Blewett before returning to Australia at the end of 1959. In 1978 she wrote a book called Care & Breeding of Australian Finches.

Ion L. Idriess contributed to the Bulletin's 'Aboriginalities' column and other journals under such pseudonyms as 'Gouger', 'Up North' and 'Emucrest' and had some success with earlier books such as his first, Madman's Island (1926); in 1931 he wrote his first best-seller, Lasseter's Last Ride, and Prospecting for Gold, a practical guide to gold mining. From this time until his last book appeared in 1969, he regularly published at least one book a year, providing tales of Australian adventure in a congenial and well-structured style. He also wrote several books for children about historical events in Australia. --excerpted from AustLit

Rowena Sarah May Blewett was sister to Dorothy and Elizabeth Blewett. Rowen and Elizabeth were co-principals of the 'Merry Day Correspondence School' from around 1942 to 1947 (based on advertisements in Victorian newspapers).

Dorothy Emilie Blewett was born on 23 July 1898 at Northcote, Victoria. Blewett worked initially as a teacher then as a secretary and stenographer for a number of companies in Melbourne, including at the Melbourne Head Office of Thomas Cook Travel where she worked from 1949 to 1951. During her time at Thomas Cook Travel she wrote articles on Australia for Cook’s Staff Magazine. As a secretary, she became a novelist, playwright, short story writer, and promoter of Australian literature. She was secretary of the Melbourne branch of Poets, Editors and Novelists (PEN) for a time. In 1951 she moved to London with her sister, Elizabeth Blewett and worked as the secretary of the London-based, Society of Australian Writers. She travelled frequently throughout Europe and the UK, representing Australia at International PEN meetings in many countries. On her return to Australia in 1959, Blewett became a literary agent representing a number of Australian writers.

Blewett died on 17 September 1965 at Eltham, Victoria, where she had lived with two of her sisters after returning from London. Her sister, Elizabeth (Bill), nephew Michael Rice and niece Prue Molnar managed her literary estate until 2016 when Blewett's papers were gifted to AustLit (University of Queensland).

Kevin John Gilbert was born on 10 July 1933 to the Wiradjuri Nation near Condoblin, New South Wales. He was the youngest of eight children of New South Wales-born parent John Joseph Gilbert (of English and Irish ancestry) and Rachel Elizabeth, nee Naden (of Aboriginal and Irish ancestry). He was raised by relatives and in welfare homes after the death of his parents. In 1957 he was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife. In gaol he learned to read and developed an interest in art and literature. He also wrote 'The Cherry Pickers', a play about aboriginal seasonal workers, first performed in 1971, giving him the distinction of being the first Aboriginal playwright to have a play performed in Australia. Gilbert was paroled in 1971 and became active in a number of Australian Aboriginal movements. He played an important part in the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra. He edited a number of periodicals and continued to write, publishing poetry and several prose works. He died in 1993.