Kombumerri clan

[3][4] Germaine Greer cites the authority of Margaret Sharpe for the view that the root of Talgiburri, namely talgi- represents dalgay (dry).

[5] The same root underlies the clan name Tulgigin, which is taken to mean "dry forest people", said to dwell south of the northern rim of the caldera.

[12][3] Their tribal boundaries are said by Ysola Best to have extended north to the Coomera River, south to Tallebudgera Creek and west to the Gold Coast hinterland.

It concerns the Nerang culture hero Gowonda, a white-haired hunter and expert in training dingoes to hunt, particularly associated with Southport.

Among every shoal of Dolphins you will see the leader with a white fin, which the Aborigines believed to be a descendant of Gowanda or another hunter returned from the dreamtime.

[19] Sceptics make much of a remark by an early observer of the practice at Amity Point, Fairholme, writing in 1856, that "Porpoises[b] abound in the Bay, but in no other part do the natives fish with their assistance.

"[21] His restrictive view was challenged by David Neil in 2002, who noted that the historic evidence, such as that of Curtis,[22] James Backhouse[23] and others, documented that this custom was attested as much more widespread along the Queensland coast down into colonial times.

Archaeologist Laila Haglund excavated the Broadbeach burial site,[29][30] which was unknown to local Aboriginal people, and of which no record existed, that came to light in June 1963, about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) inland from Mermaid Beach and not far from the mouth of the Nerang River.

Soil contractors had removed earth for reuse as garden fertiliser in the Gold Coast area without asking permission from the landowner, Alfred Grant of the Mermaid Keys Development Pty.

Ltd.[31] It became the first systematic archaeological excavation of an Aboriginal burial ground, undertaken with urgency also because the larvae of Christmas beetles were infesting the exposed bones.

[33] Through the agency of Graham family[clarify] and the Kombumerri Aboriginal Corporation the bones were laid to rest in a nearby park at Broadbeach in 1988 with a plaque dedicated to their memory.