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The Laura Festival in North Queensland

Aboriginal culture is still strong in Northern Queensland and a Dance and Cultural Festival, held every two years 15 km from the outback town of Laura, 300 kilometres north of Cairns in the south of Cape York Peninsula, is a wonderful celebration of this. This is a selection of participating groups, coming from:

Palm Island, also known by the Aboriginal name Bwcolman (Bukaman), is a tropical island with a resident community of about 2000 people, 65 kilometres north-west of Townsville, on the east coast of Queensland.
Mornington Island is the largest of the 22 Wellesley Islands in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria. The majority of the islanders are Aboriginal: Lardil are the traditional owners of the land and surrounding seas. The Kaiadilt clan arrived more recently (1947) from nearby Bentinck Island.
The Kawanji Aboriginal dance group is from Cairns, the main town in Far North Queensland.
The Mona Mona Mayi Wunba dance group hail from the picturesque mountain retreat of Kuranda Village is just 25 km northwest of Cairns, surrounded by a World Heritage Rainforest.
The Bamanga Bubu Ngadimungku dance group is from Wujal Wujal, a small Aboriginal community on the north and south sides of the Bloomfield River approximately 30 km north of Cape Tribulation and 60 km south of Cooktown.
Hope Vale is situated 46 kilometres north of Cooktown; its people mainly belong to the Guugu Yimithirr clan.
Coen is a historic former gold town, the hub of Cape York.
Lockhart River is a coastal Aboriginal community and the northernmost town on the east coast of Cape York Peninsula with a population of 542, mostly Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, whose descendants were forcibly moved to the area beginning in 1924.
Injinoo is a community at the mouth of Cowal Creek or Small River at the top of Cape York peninsula in Far North Queensland.

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