NOTICE OF JIRRBAL AUTHORISATION MEETINGS
NOTICE OF JIRRBAL AUTHORISATION MEETINGS
Jirrbal People #4 (QUD983/2015) Native Title Claim
North Queensland Land Council (NQLC) will hold two authorisation meetings on Tuesday, 6 December 2022 to which all members of the Jirrbal People #4 native title claim group are invited. NQLC strongly encourages attendance at these important meetings as it is proposed that the claim group will make binding decisions about the Jirrbal People #4 claim.
Date: Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Venue: Atherton International Club 60 Kennedy Hwy, Atherton
Registration opens: from 8:30am
Meeting start: 9:30am
Meeting finish: 4:00pm
MEETING 1 STARTS AT 9:30AM
The first meeting is for all members of the Jirrbal People #4 claim group, as presently described below to consider, and if appropriate:
- AUTHORISE an amendment to the claim group description by adding an additional apical ancestor, Sam Boyd. If this amendment is authorised, it will mean that the descendants of Sam Boyd, who are not also descendants of any current Jirrbal apical ancestor, would be included as members of the Jirrbal People #4 claim group thereafter.
*Important note: Persons who are proposed to be added to the claim group, being the descendants of Sam Boyd who are not also descendants of any current Jirrbal apical ancestor, may attend the first meeting but cannot participate in any decision making during the first meeting. If the amendment to the claim group description to add Sam Boyd as a Jirrbal apical ancestor is authorised, his descendants will be invited to participate in decision making at the second meeting.
MEETING 2 STARTS AT 11:00AM
The second meeting is for all members of the Jirrbal People #4 claim group, including the descendants of Sam Boyd if the first meeting authorises the amendment of the claim group description, to consider, and if appropriate:
- ENDORSE the decision to amend the Jirrbal People #4 claim group description to add Sam Boyd as an apical ancestor.
- AUTHORISE the withdrawal or dismissal of the ‘Northern Part B Area’ of the Jirrbal People #4 claim.
- AGREE to share the ‘Southern Part B Area’ of the Jirrbal People #4 claim with the Warrungnu People.
- AGREE to the Warrungnu People lodging an overlapping native title claim over the ‘Southern Part B Area’.
PERSONS WHO ARE ELEGIBLE TO ATTEND THE MEETINGS
All members of the Jirrbal People #4 claim group, including the descendants of Sam Boyd, are eligible and invited to attend these meetings. The Jirrbal People #4 claim group is comprised of those Aboriginal persons who are descended (which may include 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 (proposed additional apical)
- 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
* The proposed amended Jirrbal People #4 claim group description is to include apical ancestor Sam Boyd.
If you have any questions about whether you are a member of the Jirrbal People #4 claim group as described above or whether you are a descendant of Sam Boyd, please contact NQLC and ask to speak with anthropologist Kara Dunn by telephone on 07 4042 7000 or Freecall 1800 814 779 or send an email to kdunn@nqlc.com.au.
To register your interest in attending this meeting, or to enquire about travel assistance please contact Christine Smith at NQLC on Freecall 1800 814 779 or 07 4042 7000 or csmith@nqlc.com.au by no later than 5:00pm, Monday, 28 November 2022. Note that any requests for travel assistance after this date will not be approved.
There is limited funding available for travel assistance and approvals are subject to NQLC policy.
