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Message StickYour way forward July 2019 Gulngay Native Title Consent Determination Jirrbal’s Betty Cashmere wins Wet Tropics Management Authority’s People. Country. Culture. Award Engagement and Development Support Team Update Communiqué re the Uluru Statement from the Heart NQLC Ward Elections Your way forward Contents. 3 5 8 Message from Madam Chair, Update from the CEO, Jirrbal’s Betty Cashmere wins Wet Kaylene Malthouse Steve Ducksbury Tropics Management Authority’s People. Country. Culture. Award 10 12 16 Communiqué regarding the Uluru Gulngay Native Title Consent United Nations Permanent Forum on Statement from the Heart Determination Indigenous Issues 18 22 26 NQLC Ward Elections Compensation for the Extinguishment DATSIP: Judicial Review: The of Native Title Mirvac Decision 28 MessageStick is published by the North Queensland Land Council Native Title Representative Judicial Review – the Mirvac DecisionBody Aboriginal Corporation (ICN 1996). The contents of Message Stick are copyright to NQLC and should not be reproduced in whole, or part, without the written consent of the NQLC CEO. Message Stick is not for resale. Any information is correct at time of writing. The publisher apologises for any images used that contain deceased individuals or cultural sites Engagement and Development of significance. Message Stick is made possible from funding provided by the Department of Support Team Update Prime Minister and Cabinet. Any queries regarding Message Stick, please contact the editor Michelle Liddy on 1800 814 779 or [email protected]. Background Preparing to develop the cultural heritage management plan On 24 February 2017, Mirvac Queensland Pty Ltd (Mirvac) advised the chief executive of the Department of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Partnerships (DATSIP) of its intention to develop a cultural heritage management plan (CHMP) for a proposed residential development at Greenbank (Greenbank Project), pursuant to section 91 of the Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act 2003 (the ACHA). Mirvac also provided a written notice to the previously registered Jagera People #2 native title claimant (Jagera People) as the native title party and Aboriginal party for the Greenbank Project area on the same day. On 7 March 2017, the Jagera People were endorsed by Mirvac to develop the CHMP for the Greenbank Project. On 6 September 2017, Mirvac provided DATSIP with an executed CHMP for the Greenbank Project developed with the Jagera People and requested that it be approved by the chief executive plan in accordance with section 107(1)(b) of the ACHA. All consultation parties agreed that the CHMP should be approved. Loss of Aboriginal party status On 4 August 2017, the Yuggera Ugarapul People native title claim was registered over a small portion of the Greenbank Project area. On 14 September 2017, the Danggan Balun (Five Rivers) native title claim was registered over the remainder of the Greenbank Project area. This meant that from this date, the Jagera People were no longer the native title party or an Aboriginal party for any part of the Greenbank Project area. This raised the question – Can an Aboriginal party who loses its native title party status remain the endorsed party to a CHMP? Refusal to approve the plan On 30 October 2017, the chief executive determined that at the time a decision was made to approve the CHMP, the Jagera People were no longer the native title party for the CHMP area and the loss of this status resulted in the loss of their endorsed party status. The CHMP therefore could not be approved under section 107(1)(b) of the ACHA as, according to the chief executive, the relevant elements of this section did not apply. The chief executive, having determined that there was no endorsed party for the CHMP, needed to consider the CHMP under section 107(2) of the ACHA. The chief executive refused to approve the CHMP as it did not make enough provision to avoid harming Aboriginal cultural heritage due to the involvement of a party that was no longer the Aboriginal party. Judical Review On 21 November 2017, Mirvac filed an application for a statutory order of review of the chief executive's decision to refuse the approval of the CHMP under section 20 of the Judicial Review Act 1991 (Qld). The review was founded on the belief that the chief executive had erred in law by refusing to approve the CHMP. On 7 February 2018, the matter was heard before Justice Bond in the Supreme Court of Queensland. 9 Message from Madam KayleneChair Malthouse Kaylene Malthouse presenting at the PM&C PBC Regional Forum, Regional at the PM&C PBC Malthouse presenting Kaylene 2018. December All participants of the Regional Forum would like to acknowledge you, Staff Anthropologist, Kara Dunn; Ithe traditional custodians of the Legal Administration, Laura Burton lands on which our land council, and Project Officer, Marty Darr for the North Queensland Land their much-valued expertise and Council represents. I would like to hard work bringing this claim to pay my respects to Elders; past, determination. May we continue present and emerging. I would also to assist the traditional owners like to acknowledge the passing of our footprint to achieve the of our people, your people, in our recognition they rightly deserve. footprint and their contribution and input into their families, clans, In our last edition of Message tribe and organisations. Ensuring Stick, you would have read about their legacy/our legacy lives on the Djabugay Bulmba Bama Plan. through the foundations they I was so pleased to be invited have laid in native title and their along to the launch of this Plan, determined lands. Thank you. which happened in late March in Kuranda. I would like to extend my In April of this year, I was so congratulations to the Djabugay Kaylene Malthouse (NQLC Chair) with Marjorie Kinjun pleased to be a part of the Gulngay (Gulngay Elder) Native Title Determination in Tully. I truly appreciate the People and thanks Barry Hunter Jnr special connection I feel to the who worked tirelessly on the Plan Gulngay People, and have a great for Din Din Barron Gorge National fondness for Aunty Doris and Park. May all your aspirations for Aunty Marjorie. It was such an the Park come to fruition. extraordinary moment seeing this great mob be recognised as The month of June has been an the traditional owners of their eventful one. The National Native lands. Many fellow Rainforest Title Council and the Federation of People came along to join in on Victorian Traditional Corporations the celebrations, with several jointly hosted the Native Title also taking to the microphone to Conference in Melbourne, extend their congratulations. I too with the theme Land, Rights & was able to say a few words on Recognition! It was a productive behalf of the NQLC and I would conference; enabling participants like to again extend my blessings to have conversations relating to the Gulngay People. Thank you to the integration of land rights to the staff of the NQLC, NQLC Kaylene Malthouse (NQLC Chair) with and native title movement with Legal Officer, Cheryl Thomson; Doris Kinjun (Gulngay Elder) the development of First Nations Your way forward 3 9 TOLG Members at the June Regional Forum Kaylene Malthouse presenting at the PM&C PBC Regional Forum, Regional at the PM&C PBC Malthouse presenting Kaylene 2018. December Treaties and Constitutional NQLC will be holding its biennial criteria, they are eligible to be a Recognition. It also gave us the ward elections in each of the ten Director. The exact date of the opportunity to look at how the wards. If would like to re-elect September elections is presently mobs in Victoria are doing things. your current ward representative being determined and once or you know someone you think confirmed, meeting notices will In June, the Wet Tropics Traditional would make a valuable ward be posted to all members of the Owner Leadership Group representative, you need to make NQLC. If you have recently changed (TOLG), came together with a sure that they are a member of address, please do be sure to gathering of traditional owners the NQLC and have lived in their contact the NQLC office to update at the Genazanno Centre on the current ward for twelve months. your records. Atherton Tablelands. The partners Of course they (and those wishing of TOLG are the Wet Tropics to vote for them) must be present I hope you thoroughly enjoy this Management Authority, the NQLC at the Ward booth on the day of edition of Message Stick. and Terrain NRM. A number of the election. On page 18 of this stakeholders from both the State Message Stick, the ward election and Commonwealth were present. process, eligibility criteria and Kaylene Malthouse Resolutions from the floor of the the responsibilities of Directors, Chair meeting will direct TOLG forward. has been outlined. As long as a member meets all of the selection North Queensland Land Council In September of this year, the 9 Steve Ducksbury (NQLC CEO), Alwyn Lyall (NQLC Director) and Kaylene Malthouse (NQLC Chair) at the June Regional Forum. Kaylene Malthouse presenting at the PM&C PBC Regional Forum, December 2018. Barry Hunter Jnr (Djabugay Traditional Owner) and Kaylene Malthouse (NQLC Chair) at the Djabugay Bulmba Bama Plan Launch. 4 Message Stick 4 North Queensland Land Council 9 9 NQLC’s Team Building Day at Tjapukai Aboriginal Cultural Park Update from the CEO Welcome readers, to our July the celebrations in Tully, really Bindal and Warrgamay, with 2019 edition of Message Stick. reinforcing the close bonds steady progress being made. We’re half way through the year that the Aboriginal People of Research continues on claims already and it will be Christmas the Rainforest share.
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