The Wakka Wakka People #3 and the Wakka Wakka People #4 native title Meeting

The Wakka Wakka People are the Aboriginal people who have a connection to the application area in accordance with their traditional laws acknowledged and traditional customs observed and are descendants of one or more of the following ancestors:

1. Jenny and David Carlo (parents of Princess Carlo)
2. Minnie Bly (mother of Thomas Simpson), Ethel and Bill Button
3. Mother of Maggie Hart (Grandmother of Crabbie Chapman and Henry Hart)
4. Mother of Willie Boy Pickering
5. King Billy and Maria of Boondooma (parents of Tommy Dodd of Taabinga)
6. Maggie West
7. Kitty of Boonara
8. MiMi
9. Kitty (mother of Jack Bulong)
10. John Bond
11. Kitty (mother of Jenny Lind), Jenny Lind and Mick Buck
12. Boubijan Cobbo
13. Stockman Bligh and Aggie Bligh
14. Tommy (aka Boondoon) and Maggie (parents of Willie Bone), Billy McKenzie (father of Chlorine McKenzie), Chlorine McKenzie
15. Kate/Katie/Kitty Law
16. Emily of Degilbo, mother of Annie
17. Taabinga Harry
18. Nellie, mother of Elsie Fitzgerald / Edwards

The purpose of Authorisation Meeting #1 is to AUTHORISE amendments to each of the Wakka Wakka People #3 and Wakka Wakka People #4 native title claims (‘the Native Title Claims') replacing all of the wording at Schedules A to the native title application Forms 1 (the description of the native title claim group) for each native title claim with the following wording:

The native title claim group is made up of families whose members identify as Wakka Wakka, in accordance with traditional laws acknowledged and traditional customs observed by them. Membership is based on the principle of cognatic descent (i.e. descent traced through either mother or father).

This application is brought on behalf Aboriginal people whose members identify as Wakka Wakka People, who are descended from the following ancestors:
1. Jenny and David Carlo (parents of Princess Carlo)
2. Minnie Bly (mother of Thomas Simpson), Ethel and Bill Button
3. Mother of Maggie Hart (Grandmother of Crabbie Chapman and Henry Hart)
4. Mother of Willie Boy Pickering
5. King Billy and Maria of Boondooma (parents of Tommy Dodd of Taabinga)
6. Maggie West
7. Kitty of Boonara
8. MiMi
9. Kitty (mother of Jack Bulong)
10. John Bond
11. Kitty (mother of Jenny Lind), Jenny Lind and Mick Buck
12. Boubijan Cobbo
14. Tommy (aka Boondoon) and Maggie (parents of Willie Bone), Billy McKenzie (father of Chlorine McKenzie), Chlorine McKenzie
15. Kate/Katie/Kitty Law
16. Emily of Degilbo, mother of Annie
17. Taabinga Harry

Appeared in the Koori Mail dated May 5, 2021