This dictionary of the Jandai language is from The Australian Race: Its Origin, Languages, Customs, Place of Landing in Australia and the Routes by which it Spread itself over that Continent (1883) by Edward M Curr. Edward Micklethwaite Curr’s words were used by the courts to deny the Yorta Yorta people their land rights.
Edward M Curr, one of my ancestors, did assemble several volumes of aboriginal languages. Here is one here, the Jandai language from Minjerribah (Straddie) and Moreton Islands spoken by the Quandamooka people.
See Members of the Yorta Yorta Aboriginal Community v Victoria [2002]
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Professor Bronwyn Fredericks at St Clements Anglican Church, Stafford, Sunday 17 September 2023.
Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Indigenous Engagement) – About UQ – University of Queensland
Hear and exchange with Professor Bronwyn Fredericks, Deputy Vice Chancellor – Indigenous Engagement from Queensland University, at an address organised by the Anglican parish in Stafford, Brisbane.
Professor Fredericks has been travelling widely, talking to many groups, getting a grass roots understanding of the ideas behind the Uluru Statement from the Heart.
An educator with a PhD in Health Sciences, and extensive background working with Aboriginal and Islander community organisations, she is currently a Director of the Queensland Council of Social Services (QCOSS) and a past Central Queensland Board member of Anglicare.
Previously Bronwyn Fredericks served on the Queensland Productivity Commission, working on inquiries into service delivery in remote communities (2016), manufacturing (2016), the recycling review (2019), and imprisonment and recidivism in Queensland (2019).
An open invitation has been extended to the public to Professor Frederick’s address, at 09:30 on Sunday morning 17 September, at St Clements Anglican Church, corner of Eudunda and Reuben Streets, Stafford. (Two blocks North up Victor Street from Bunnings in Stafford Road – right turn into Reuben).
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