TheWulili are anIndigenous Australian people of the state ofQueensland.
Wulili is regarded as a dialect ofWagawaga.[1]Nils Holmer has analysed what little has been salvaged from the language.[2]
Norman Tindale assigned the Wulili an area of traditional tribal lands of approximately 3,200 square miles (8,300 km2), ranging over the headwaters of theAuburn River andRedbank Creek, northwards as far asWalloon andCamboon, and on the ranges east of theDawson River. he placed their eastern borders in the vicinity ofEidsvold.[3]
Camboon Station was a major employer of people from the Wulli Wulli first nation.State Library of Queensland holds the Camboon Station records[4] which record the day to day activities or running the pastoral station including details of the Wulli Wulli peopled employed as drovers and stockmen, shepherds, general station hands and domestic servants.[5]
A very late tradition collected in 1979[6] states that a certain Jimmy Reid, A Camboon station resident, told a third party before his own death, that the Wulili had participated in theHornet Bank massacre.[7] In her memoir, the Queensland poetJudith Wright affirmed that, together with theYiman, who were held responsible for the killings of the Fraser family, the Wulili also were wiped out.[8]John Mathew, however, managed to collect samples of their language from native informants decades later, and published the results in 1926.[9]
This Wikipedia article incorporates text fromCamboon Station Records (23 June 2021) published by theState Library of Queensland underCC BYlicence, accessed on 29 June 2021.