Gidhabal

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates The Gidhabal, also known as Kitabal and Githabul, are an Aboriginal Australian people of southern Queensland,Template:Sfn who inhabited an area in south-east Queensland and north-east New South Wales, now within the Southern Downs, Tenterfield and Kyogle Local Government regions.

Language

The Gidhabal people's language is called Gidhabal. It is variety of the Condamine-Upper Clarence language, a dialect cluster of the wider Bundjalungic branch of Pama–Nyungan language family,Template:Sfn though the Githabul dislike calling their language Bundjalung as a descriptor of their speech.Template:Sfn

Country

According to Norman Tindale, the Githabul people owned over some of territory, which lay around the headwaters of the Clarence, Richmond, and Logan rivers on the Great Dividing Range. He adds that it extended from Killarney to Urbenville, Woodenbong, Unumgar (NganamgahTemplate:Sfn), and Tooloom. at Rathdowney and about Spicer Gap. Tindale placed its southern reaches near the vicinity of Tabulam and Drake.Template:Sfn

Social organisation

R. H. Mathews stayed with the Githabul in 1898 and picked up the following information concerning their social divisions, which were fourfold.Template:Sfn

Cycle	Mother	Father	Son	Daughter
KarrpiyanTemplate:Efn	Barrangan	Dyerwain	Bandyoor	Bandyooran
	Bandyooran	Bunda	Barrang	Barrangan
TiyatyiTemplate:Efn	Dyerwaingan	Barrang	Bunda	Bundagan
	Bundagan	Bandyoor	Dyerwain	Dyerwaingan

Native title

In September 1995 Githabul legal scholar Trevor Close, on behalf of his people, lodged a native title claim for Template:Cvt in the Kyogle, Woodenbong and Tenterfield areas in northeast New South Wales and in Queensland, south of Rathdowney. Justice Catherine Branson of the Federal Court of Australia, on 29 November 2007, made a consent determination recognising their non-exclusive native title rights and interests over in nine national parks and 13 state forests in northern New South Wales.Template:Sfn

In May 2021 the Githabul peoples lodged a Native Title claim (Waringh Waringh) over much of the former Warwick Shire within the Southern Downs Regional Council area of Queensland.

Alternative names

• Kidabal, Kidjabal, Kit(t)a-bool, Kittabool, Kitabool, Kitapul
• Gidabul, Gidjoobal
• Kuttibul
• NoowidalTemplate:Sfn

Notable people

• Frank Roberts (1945–2011), boxer, one of three first Indigenous Australians to participate in the Olympics, in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics