Baradha
The AIATSIS Map of Indigenous Australia and Norman Tindale"s Aboriginal Tribes of Australia place the Baradha (alternatively Barada, Tha-ra-ra-burra/Thar ar ra burra, (horde at Cardowan), Toolginburra (tulkun: hill)) on around 6,500 square kilometres around the Connors River and Lotus Creek, extending north to Nebo along the inland ranges and west to near Bombandy with the Yuwi and Biri to their north, the Barna to their west, the Darumbal to their south and the Guwinmal tas their eastern neighbours. They spoke the Baradha dialect of the Biri language, which appears to have become extinct before 1975.
According to George Bridgeman, the Baradha (Toolginburra) were one of the four tribes decimated in the decade after settlers arrived in the Mackay district.
... about one-half of the aboriginal population was either shot down by the Native Mounted Police and their officers or perished from introduced loath- some diseases before unknown. The Black troopers, however, are said to have been the chief destroyers. What the actual numbers of the tribes were when the Whites came amongst them is not known, but my anonymous correspondent gives the number of the Toolginburra tribe at the present time (1880) as one hundred, made up of 40 men, 40 women, and 20 children, and mentions that large numbers were carried off by measles in 1876. (George F. Bridgeman. "Port Mackay and its Neighbourhood", pp. 44-45.)
