Turrbali

The Turrbal were an Aboriginal Australian people whose traditional lands covered the Brisbane area, which they called Meanjin. Their speech, counted either as a language in its own right or as a dialect of Yuggera, belongs to the Durubalic branch of the Pama-Nyungan family; the name Turrbal itself is said to mean those who say turr or dhur for a bora ring.

They lived by hunting, fishing and gathering, digging yams and swamp fern and harvesting palm shoots. Every three years they travelled into neighbouring Wakka Wakka country for the Bunya feast. In 1824 the explorer John Oxley sighted them on the voyage that founded the Moreton Bay penal settlement, the first European settlement on their land.