Catherine Elizabeth Ferguson, also spelt as Katharine, was born on 18 Jan 1875. She married John George McGregor on 28 November 1898. She died 25 April 1968.

Queensland solicitor.

Katharine Elizabeth McGregor was born on 16 May 1903 in South Brisbane. Educated at Brisbane Girl's Grammar School, and won an open scholarship to University of Queensland (B.A. 1923; M.A. 1925). She was the first female barrister to be admitted to the Supreme Court of Queensland. She died on 25 June 1979. After a donation from several friends, in 1980 a postgraduate scholarship and prize was set up at the University of Queensland for introductory Greek or Latin. It is now known as The Katharine McGregor Prize for Introductory Latin or Greek.

Neville Thomas Bonner AO (28 March 1922 - 5 February 1999), elder of the Jagera people, was the first Indigenous Australian to become a member of the Parliament of Australia. He served as President of the One People of Australia League (OPAL) from 1970 to 1974.

Abschol was the Aboriginal Affairs Department of the National Union of Australian University Students. Its activities became wider than its stated objectives especially when the Australian Government began a secondary school scholarships scheme. The national Australian Union of Students (the continuation of N.U.A.U.S.) dropped the name ABSCHOL in favour of "Race Relations Department".

In 1977 the name of Abschol (University of Queensland) was Abschol – University of Queensland Race Relations Office but it was known as Abschol. Its aims were to promote and aid higher education, including secondary, technical and tertiary education, for Aborigines; to inform university students and the community about the problems faced by Aborigines in furthering their education; to give scholarships to eligible students. Membership was open to all Australian Indigenous people, and to staff and students at the University of Queensland. The University of Queensland group retained the name ABSCHOL. Its activities emphasized close links with the Brisbane black community. It became inoperative in the late seventies. Since 1981 attempts have been made to revive it. Publicists for Abschol (University of Queensland) included: Budger Davidson, Jenny McLean, Denis Walker.

Helen Derrick (nee Greenwood-Nadebaum), daughter of Gordon and Thora Greenwoord, was born in 1940.

The Dreamtime Cultural Centre is located just outside Rockhampton on the Bruce Highway near Limestone Creek. It was the brainchild of Kathleen Nola James (1933–1993), founding member and coordinator of the Central Queensland Aboriginal Corporation for Cultural Activities (CQACCA), which was registered in 1980. Nola envisaged a cultural centre for Rockhampton and publicised and raised funds for the venture. In 1985 the Rockhampton City Council and CQACCA reach an agreement that led to the Dreamtime Cultural Centre's establishment. Funding was sourced from Commonwealth Bicentennial and Department of Aboriginal Affairs grants. The land on which the Cultural Centre is located was originally occupied by the Darumbul Tribe and still contains their traditional ceremonial rings. The Centre was officially opened in April 1988 by former Prime Minister of Australia Robert (Bob) James Lee Hawke, with subsequent expansions in November 1988 and March 1992 for the Torres Strait Islander and Dugong complexes, respectively. The main building of the Centre is named after Nola James, who served as the Centre's Cultural Director from 1984 to 1993.

Ross Watson was born in 1944. He went to school in Theodore and from 14 years of age he went to the Christian Brothers College in Yeppoon. He was an Aboriginal Australian activist, coordinator of the Black Protest Committee and founder and editor of Black Nation, a newspaper that ran from 1982 to 1985. Ross, with his newspaper, played a major role in organising rallies, protests and demonstrations, particularly around the 1982 Brisbane Commonwealth Games. He was also a founder of the Murri School and Murri radio station 98.9 FM. His family include: Lilla Watson (sister), Charlie Watson (brother), Teila (daughter), Kaava (son), Tiga Bayles (cousin). Ross died in 2013.

The Women and Development Network of Australia (WADNA) was established in 1981 following a conference in Melbourne that same year, where a gathering of women representing Australian Council for International Development (ACFID) member agencies convened and issued the Lowanna Declaration on Women and Development. The purpose of WADNA was to promote public awareness of issues concerning women internationally. It received funding from the Australian Development Assistance Bureau, Australian Catholic Relief, Australian Council of Churches, Australian Freedom from Hunger Campaign, Community Aid Abroad, World Vision Australia and the Women's Film Fund, as well as donations from members and supporters. The national office was located in Melbourne but WADNA had regional groups in every capital city in Australia. Wendy Poussard was the National Coordinator of the Women and Development Network of Australia between 1983-1985. WADNA had largely collapsed by the 1990s after some key people, including Poussard, left the network to form the International Women’s Development Agency (IWDA) in 1985.