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.

A special committee established to help organise a march for land rights and to protest the celebrations for Australia's bicentenary. Planning for the march launched nationally on 4 July 1987. Aside from acting as a counterpoint to the bicentenary celebrations, the aim of the march was to draw national and international attention to the ongoing impacts of colonisation and issues regarding the health, education, welfare, imprisonment rates and deaths in custody of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The resulting march was attended by more than 40,000 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island peoples and non-Indigenous supporters. It was, at the time, the largest march ever held in Sydney since the Vietnam moratoriums. The march arrived in Hyde Park, Sydney, on Australia Day, 26 January 1988. Reverend Charles Harris was a leading figure of March 88 Committee. The Committee was connected to the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) through Reverend Harris. Unable to determine when the Committee disbanded.

The Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC) formed in 1985, after the Assembly of the Uniting Church in Australia agreed to officially support the formation of the Congress. Reverend Charles Harris was the founding President. The UAICC consists of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander members of the Uniting Church in Australia, though members can also come from any other Christian denomination. The March 88 Committee - a special committee formed to organise the 1988 March for Justice, Freedom and Hope - was connected to the UAICC.

Charles Enoch Edward Harris was born on 8 July 1931 near Ingham, North Queensland, to Golgay Harris and Allie Harris (nee Wyle). He was an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community leader and a Uniting Church minister. He was instrumental in the creation of the Uniting Aboriginal and Islander Christian Congress (UAICC), which formed in 1985, and the UAICC's March 88 Committee, which played a key role in the 1988 March for Freedom, Justice, and Hope. He died on 7 May 1993.

Trades and Labor Council of Queensland (1922- ).
Objectives - To act as a unifying body for trade unions in Queensland.
Publicists - From 1970 refer to the annual Official Trades Union Directory.
Notes: The T.L.C. was first set up in 1885 then disbanded in 1889 to make way for the Australian Labor Federation. It was reformed briefly in 1903. It was voted out of existence by the Second Trade Union Congress in 1911 and finally re-established in 1922 with the affiliation of forty-six unions It amalgamated the Trades Hall Board, the Eight Hour Day Committee and the Brisbane Industrial Council. The formation of the present T.L.C. coincided with, and in fact was a direct result of the occupancy of the present Trades Hall by the unions in April 1922. The T.L.C. is the state branch of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. Note: The Trades and Labor Council of Queensland was established in 1922. In 1993 it became the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Queensland Branch. In 1999 it was renamed the Queensland Council of Unions.

Link-Up (Qld) is a not-for-profit organisation based in Brisbane, Queensland, that assists to reunite Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples with their families and communities. Clients are usually Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were separated from their families and communities at a young age by adoption or foster care, or by being taken away and raised in institutions. The Link-Up research team searches Government records and databases to try to trace the heritage of clients. Additionally, Link-Up provides access to counsellors who support clients through the experience.

As part of the Aboriginal and Islander Child Care Agency (AICCA), Link-Up (Qld) began offering services in 1984. Initially the organisation focused on addressing the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who felt marginalised and oppressed by society. The organisation's mission gained momentum after the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1987-1991) revealed the impacts of past government policies that resulted in the separation of families and communities. The 1997 'Bringing Them Home' report, produced by the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission as part of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, further affirmed the negative consequences of child removal on Australian Indigenous families, communities and cultures. Link-Up (Qld) continues to offer reunification services to facilitate the healing process in light of these findings.

Pauline Hanson's One Nation is an Australian political party launched in 1997 by politician Pauline Hanson.