Notice of Danggan Balun People Native Title Authorisation Meetings (QUD331/2017)

 Appeared in the KOORI MAIL February 28, 2024

The current native title claim group for the Danggan Balun Claim are those persons who are descendants of the following apical ancestors and who identify and are recognised under the traditional laws and customs of the native title claim group as being affiliated (including by adoption) to country within the Application area: 

The current native title claim group for the Danggan Balun Claim are those persons who are descendants of the following apical ancestors and who identify and are recognised under the traditional laws and customs of the native title claim group as being affiliated (including by adoption) to country within the Application area:

1. Sarah Warri/Warru Clarke;
2. George Daramlee Drumley;
3. Jack Slab/Slabb Snr (husband of Lizzie Waggil Slabb & father of Charlotte, Frank, John/Jack Jnr, Olive & Victor);
4. Kitty Blow (wife of Joseph Blow & mother of Frank Blow & Hughie Blow);
5. Bilin Bilin aka Bilinba Jackey aka Jackey Jackey aka John “Johnny” Logan (father of Emily Logan & Johnny Logan);
6. Kipper Tommy Andrews (father of Lizzie Malay (nee Tommie));
7. Billy Terribah/Didiba Andrews;
8. Julia Sandy (wife of Arthur Ford);
9. Kitty Sandy, the mother of Arthur Ford;
10. Mary Ann Sandy nee Mitchell (mother of Mary Ann Drumley (nee Sandy), Ida Bell (nee Sandy), Janet Sandy, Norman Sandy Snr & Lindsay Sandy);
11. William “Billy” Mitchell and his wife, Lizzie Sandy;
12. Unnamed mother of Matilda “Mittie” Fogarty (nee Sandy) and Lizzie (mother of William “Billy” Stanley Brown Jnr);
13. Coolum (husband of Nancy Culham (nee Coolwell) & father of Joseph “Joe”, Maude, Lucy & Lena);
14. Unnamed mother of Nancy Culham (nee Coolwell) (wife of Coolum & mother of Joseph “Joe”, Maude, Lucy & Lena);
15. Yarry (father of Frederick “Fred” Yarrie/Yarry);
16. Jennie, mother of Joseph Coolwell (husband of Polly Allen/Dalton & father of Alice Edwards (nee Coolwell), Alfred Coolwell Jnr, Eva, Edward, Rose, Campbell, Michael & Andrew);
17. Polly Allen/Dalton (wife of Joseph Coolwell & mother of Eva, Edward, Rose, Campbell, Michael & Andrew);
18. Unnamed mother of Elizabeth Tomes/ Clark nee Wheeler;
19. Jim Edwards Snr (husband of Topsy (of Ipswich) & father of Jimmy Edwards Jnr);
20. William Williams (Snr);
21. Bullum Bullum aka John Allen;
22. Alice/Alison Parsons nee Moree, mother of Thomas Parsons;
23. John “Johnny” Bungaree / Bungary (father of Norman Sandy Snr, Lindsay Sandy and Stella Bungera/Bungary).
(the Danggan Balun Claim Group).

The purpose of Authorisation Meeting #1 is to:
1. Receive information about the Danggan Balun Claim and possible amendments to the Danggan Balun Claim;
2. Consider whether to amend the Danggan Balun Claim by removing one or both of the following apical ancestors listed at Schedule A to the Danggan Balun Claim application and to authorise any such amendment/s:
a) Kitty Sandy, the mother of Arthur Ford; and/or
b) John "Johnny" Bungaree / Bungary (father of Norman Sandy Snr, Lindsay Sandy and Stella Bungera/Bungary);