North Queensland Land Council
Native Title Representative Body Aboriginal Corporation (ICN 1996)
NOTICE OF AUTHORISATION MEETING JIRRBAL PEOPLE #4 NATIVE TITLE CLAIM (QUD983/2015)
Date: | Saturday, 15 March 2025 | Registration opens: Meeting start: Meeting finish: | from 8:30am 9:30am 12.30pm |
Venue: | Wondecla Showgrounds Longlands Gap Road, Wondecla |
The North Queensland Land Council (NQLC) will hold an authorisation meeting on Saturday, 15 March 2025 to which all members of the Jirrbal People #4 native title claim group (as described below) are invited to attend. This is an important meeting where binding decisions about the Jirrbal People #4 native title claim are proposed to be made.
Following the Authorisation meeting, there will be a Consent Determination Celebration lunch for Part A which will take place at approximately 12.30pm.
PURPOSE OF MEETING
The purpose of this meeting is to consider, and if appropriate, make decisions about the following:
- CONFIRM the agreed and adopted decision making process to be used for making decisions at the meeting.
- NOMINATE Jirrbal persons to be the replacement Applicant for the Jirrbal People #4 native title claim (QUD983/2015).
- AUTHORISE the replacement Applicant to replace the existing Applicant for the Jirrbal People #4 native title claim (QUD983/2015), and authorise the replacement Applicant to make the Jirrbal People #4 native title claim and to deal with all matters arising under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth), including sections 61 and 251B of the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth).
- AUTHORISE any conditions to be imposed on the authority of the replacement Applicant.
- AUTHORISE the replacement Applicant to make an interlocutory application to the Federal Court to replace the existing Applicant in accordance with section 66B of the NTA and to amend the Jirrbal #4 native title claim (Form 1) to record the change of the Applicant.
Map of Jirrbal People #4 Claim Area
Map of the remaining Jirrbal People #4 Claim Area for determination
PERSONS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO ATTEND
All members of the Jirrbal People #4 claim group as described below are eligible and invited to attend this meeting.
The Jirrbal People #4 claim group is comprised of those Aboriginal persons who are descended (which may include descent by adoption) from one or more of the following apical ancestors (listed alphabetically):
- Betty (aka Biddy) Gordon
- Bonnel Logan and Jinnie
- Bulbulyarraman Willie Mango or his wives Nellie and Calida
- Charlie (Jurabagle) Woods
- Chloe McKenzie/Cameron
- Dubula Lorna Lawrence (nee Robinson)
- Ethel Perrott
- Harry Maloon
- Jack (Deinjo) Watson/Major
- Jack Robinson
- Jerry Linedale or Maggie
- Jimmy Darcy or his wives Polly and Lassie Darcy
- Jimmy Murray (aka Jimmy Minegan) or his wives Jinnie (aka Jay Minigan) and Misashay (aka Maryanne)
- Joe Robinson or Eva Robinson
- Katie Cameron
- King Jimmy Robertson/Robinson (aka Jimmy King) or his wives Kitty Robertson or Polly Malone
- King Sandy Maynard or his wife Annie Thomas
- Linda Duffin (aka Linda McGuire)
- Lizzie Palmer, Maggie Cross or Mary Todd
- Lucy Gordon/Lifu
- Minnie Silent
- Murrigami (aka Jim Clarke)
- Murriguemie
- Nellie Deagon
- Nellie Googoonburra
- Nellie Keough/James, Merti/Bertie or Peter
- Nellie Williams
- Polly Hull
- Polly Robinson (1) (aka Polly Ingham) or her husband Mick Robinson
- Polly Robson
- Romeo Robson (aka Robinson) or his wife Topsy
- Rosie Congoo
- Sam Boyd
- Toby and Polly
- Tommy Gardiner (aka Tommy Anderson)
- Tommy Herberton’s siblings
- Tommy Toombs or his wife Polly
- Una Woodleigh
- Wanmal and Yugibidjal
- Youall Biddy-Robinson or her husband Tommy Herberton
- Youall Biddy-Robinson’s siblings
If you have any questions about whether you are a member of the Jirrbal People #4 claim group as described above, please contact NQLC and ask to speak with anthropologist Kara Dunn by telephone on (07)
4042 ...
or Freecall
1800 814...
or send an email to kdunn@nqlc.com.au .
