Rockland on behalf of the Waanyi People v State of Queensland [2021] FCA 1139

Rockland on behalf of the Waanyi People v State of Queensland [2021] FCA 1139

The Native Title Holders are the Waanyi People.

A person is a Waanyi person if and only if:
(a)    the other Waanyi people recognise that he or she is descended (which may include by adoption) from a person who they recognise as having been Waanyi; and

(b)    the person identifies himself or herself as a Waanyi person.
It is accepted that adoption may take place and that where adoption has occurred it confers upon the adoptee the right to identify as being a Waanyi person.

The following deceased persons are recognised as having been Waanyi people from whom living Waanyi people may be descended:
(a)    King George (Gundawarinya), Mary Starr (Namura), Marrandu
(b)    Johnny Rockland (Guyanda)
(c)    Wuragaga (including his sons Toby Daly and Charlie Walden)
(d)    Wirduga (including her sons King Pedro and Fred Mangala), Yurumburinya, Gudurju, Jagijagi (including her children Left-hand Dick, King Darby, Violet Darby), Lagayi, and Brenda Munara (including her children Duncan Hogan, Julie Darby, Dan Darby, Clara Darby, Frank Hogan, Arthur Peterson)
(e)    Jack Riversleigh (including his children Doris Aplin and Vera Johnny, Annie King and Elaine Cairns)
(f)    Diana (Dina) Jackson
(g)    Fred Mangala (including his children Jimmy Doolan, Tommy Doolan, Oscar Gregory and Queenie Bell) and King Pedro (including his children Dinny, Jock and Cubby Pedro)
(h)    Janggali (including his son Yarribija's children: Duncan Hogan, Julie Darby, Dan Darby, Clara Darby, Frank Hogan, Arthur Peterson; and his daughter Muranji's daughters: Jamuyu and Lidi Wayawarrinya)
(i)    King Darby, Left Hand Dick and Violet Darby
(j)    Ruby Lilwayi (including her daughter Elsie Foster), Polly Nganduyu (including her children: Nancy Carlton, Ned George, Sally O'Keefe, Bubi Dick, Netty Malbow and Nuts Logan), May Black Nijirijbina (including her children Nancy Wilson, Nora Black, Dora Doolan nee Black and Archie Black), Ruby Gijaya (including her children Mavis Carlton, Junie Clay, Maurice Carlton, Marina Dick, Mick Miller, Murray Donaldson), and Mailman Dick Gungayamaji (including his child Ivy George Ngayaya)
(k)    Smiler Diamond (including his children: Mick Diamond Nguyjbirri and Jack Diamond Bandangala and Sydney Punjaub and Ruby)
(l)    Mailman Jack Libaninji (including his son Fred Carlton Gajangga, daughter Rosie and her daughter Betty Lloyd Jayinbalina, and son Ned Ngaragulanji and his children Bessie Holt and Colin Holt)
(m)    Rosie (including her daughter Lena Saville)
(n)    June Jacob
(o)    Opal
(p)    Minnie (Myboogundji)

The determination area is set out in the proposed determination. It commences approximately 19 kilometres northwest of Doomadgee in the vicinities of Nicholson River and Cliffdale Creek. The western-most boundary adjoins the Queensland – Northern Territory border. The eastern and south-eastern boundaries adjoin an area of land and waters where the Court recognised the native title of the Waanyi People in a determination made on 9 December 2010: Aplin on behalf of the Waanyi Peoples v State of Queensland (No 3) [2010] FCA 1515 (Dowsett J) (first Waanyi determination).