Bindal people  The Bindal were an indigenous Australian people of the state of Queensland. Only some confused word lists survive bearing on Bindal. Gavan Breen has classified it as one of the Lower Burdekin languages. The Bindal's coastal reaches lay around the Burdekin River's outlet into the Coral Sea at Upstart Bay, running northwards as far as Cape Cleveland and inland to the Leichhardt Range. They were the indigenous people of Ayr. Norman Tindale estimated the overall extent of their lands at about .