Oodgeroo Noonuccal of the Noonuccal tribe of North Stradbroke Island near Brisbane, was a poet and Aboriginal activist. She was born Kathleen Jean Mary Ruska on 3 November 1920 at Bulimba (then in the Shire of Balmoral and from 1925 a suburb of Brisbane). Her parents were Edward (Ted) Ruska, and Lucy, nee McCullough. She was the second youngest of seven children. Her father was a Noonuccal descendant. Ruska's childhood home was One Mile on North Stradbroke Island on the outskirts of Dunwich. She completed her education at Dunwich State school in 1934, at the age of thirteen, and left home to work in Brisbane. In 1941 she enlisted in the Australian Women's Army Service and was discharged in 1944. She married Bruce Walker, a childhood friend, on 8 May 1943. The couple had one son, but later separated. Kath Walker later worked for Raphael and Phyllis Cilento. In 1953, she had a son with the Cilentos' son, Raphael junior.

Kath Walker was involved in numerous organisations. From 1961 to 1970 she was the Queensland State Secretary of the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders as well as an Executive of the Queensland Aboriginal Advancement League and Secretary of the Queensland State Council for the Advancement of Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders. She was a member of the Aboriginal Arts Board, the Aboriginal Housing Committee, the Australian-American Bicentennial Committee. She was also the Chairperson of the Cultural Committee of the Queensland Multicultural Task Force in 1978 and later the Managing Director of the Noonuccal-Nughie Education and Cultural Centre.

During her lifetime Kath Walker filled several lecturing and artistic positions. These included Adult Education Lecturer; Delegate to the World Council of Churches Consultation on Racism; Guest Lecturer at the University of South Pacific; Official Australian Envoy on a Diplomatic Passport to International Writers' Conference in Malaysia; Senior Advisor to the Australian Aboriginal Contingent to the First World Black Festival of Arts in Nigeria; Guest of the Government of Papua New Guinea for the PNG Festival of Arts; Delegate to the Second World Black Festival of Arts; Lecturer and assistant to Professor P. Edwards, Camp Jungai pre-tertiary Aboriginal students summer camp; Remedial Tutor at the Dunwich State Primary School. She toured the United States on a Fullbright Scholarship and Myers travel grant lecturing on Australian Indigenous culture.

In 1981 Kath Walker launched her new career as a painter and fabric designer. Her first exhibition was in July 1981. In an article by Bruce Dickson, Kath Walker says that "painting has always been her first love [as] it communicates more effectively than the written word".

In protest at the 1988 Australian Bicentenary celebrations, in 1987 Kath Walker changed her name to Oodgeroo of the Noonuccal tribe. In the same year she returned the MBE (awarded in 1970) to the Governor of Queensland.

She died of cancer on 16 September 1993.

Rosemary Opala (nee Fielding) was born on 24 January 1923 at Bundaberg, Queensland in 1923. In the 1940s she studied art at the George Street Technical College (later Queensland University of Technology). She trained as a nurse at Brisbane General Hospital during World War II, worked at the Peel Island Lazaret in the late 1940s. At this time she began drawing cartoons about nursing, having abandoned a commercial art course in order 'to do something useful’. Many were published in Trephine (Brisbane). In the late 1950s and early 1960s, she wrote popular magazine fiction and in later years wrote non-fiction, with an emphasis on Queensland and its history. After working at Peel Island in the 1960s, Rosemary and her husband Marian moved to Redland Bay and later to Coochiemudlo Island where they built a house near Main Beach. They never had children. The couple left the island in the late 1960s and Rosemary continued her career as a nurse. She received her diploma in Nursing administration in 1977 and worked at Prince Charles Hospital in Brisbane. Marian Opala died on 12 June 1989. Retiring in 1989 she remained at Victoria Point. She died on 26 January 2008.

Walter Lewis Doe was born in Kilkenny, Ireland, on 15 November 1907. He migrated to Australia in 1924. In 1930 Wally, as he was known, went to the Mandated Territory of New Guinea to work for Bulolo Gold Dredging. He fought in World War Two with the Royal Australian Air Force (1941 to 1943) and the Australian Army (1943 to 1945) after which he returned to Wau in Papua New Guinea, eventually returning to Australia in 1953. At the time his autobiography, Wandering Wally, was published in 1997, Wally Doe was living in Dalmeny, N.S.W.

Independent researcher, English teacher, and former school principal. She earned her PhD from the University of Sydney.

Born in 1949 in Sydney, Australia. Academic at the University of Western Sydney, and has published a number of books and articles on Australian writer.

Frederic James was 7 years old when he and his family immigrated to Australia, arriving in Queensland on 27 March 1876. He worked as an engineer and later as an officer for the Department of Agriculture and Stock. After retiring Watson spent most of his time studying the traditions and languages of the south-eastern aboriginal people. Watson was a fellow and associate member of the Queensland Place Names Committee. He died on 10 April 1947.

Kathleen Kinkead Watson was born on 13 January 1911 in Brisbane. She won a scholarship to University of Queensland when it was located in George Street. Kath Watson wrote poetry into the 1980s. She joined the Communist Party in 1940 and was politically active in the labour movement from the 1940s. She worked in the trade union movement including for the Union of Australian Women in fighting for equal pay. She married Harvey Alfred Pete Thomas and it is by her married name, Kath Thomas, that she is most remembered. Throughout the 1970s Watson continued preparing submissions to the Federal Government on the role and status of women. She died on 3 October 1994.

This group appears to have been a Brisbane group and may have only been active in 1984.