Talk:Vincent Mundraby

Compiling reference materials for new biographical article

• 19971008 Present to JOINT COMMITTEE ON NATIVE TITLE AND THE ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER LAND FUND on Native Title Amendment Bill
• 19980402 as Steering Committee Chairperson Review of Aboriginal Involvement in the Management of the WTWHA 'Which Way our Cultural Survival' "THE REVIEW OF ABORIGINAL INVOLVEMENT IN THE MANAGEMENT OF THE WET TROPICS WORLD HERITAGE AREA"
• 20001128 as spokesperson & Yidinji Aboriginal owner of wet Tropics World Heritage seeking cultural nomination in "Tribes seek say in decisions" Cairns Post
• 20001202 as Chairperson of Bama Wabu & official observer to World Heritage Committee meeting at the Cairns convention centre
• 20041128 Aboriginal Local Government open letter to Premier Peter Beattie regarding Palm Island
• 20050400 as Aboriginal negotiator of the Wet Tropics Regional Agreement "Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Area Regional Agreement"
• 20060424 as applicant 'The Mandingalbay Yidinji People’s native title determination' National Native Title Tribunal'
• 20060524 as Aboriginal Council Mayor "Yarrabah is a Queensland First" The Wire
• 20071001 as Yarrabah Council Mayor signing $14 million housing etc agreement with Cwlth Minister Mal Brough "Landmark Housing and Welfare Reform Agreement for Yarrabah"
• 20071001 as Yarrabah Council Mayor "The Yarrabah Agreement" signed by Australian Government & Yarrabah Aboriginal Council
• 20070527 as Mayor of Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council sponsoring antialchol musical events in 'Musicians with a message' Koori Mail pg 13
• 20100000 as Aboriginal cultural survival and rights advocate & Wet Tropics Management Authority's 'Cassowary Awards' recipient for 2010 "Vince Mundraby - Rainforest Aboriginal Culture"
• 20120106 as Yidinji protected area/ Aboriginal land manager in "Green battlelines for 2012" Canberra Times .. Queensland indigenous leader Vince Mundraby signing an agreement in Cairns that gives the Mandingalbay Yidinji people management rights for all conservation projects across 10,000ha of rainforest and ocean in northern Queensland.
• 20120219 as Yarrabah Aboriginal leader endorsing labor candidate Curtis Pitt "THE MAN FOR YARRIE: Vince Mundraby talks about Curtis Pitt"
• 20120921 as Native Title Applicant in Federal Court of Australia "Mundraby on behalf of the Combined Mandingalbay Yidinji-Gunggandji People v State of Queensland" 2012 FCA 1039
• 20121010 as Yarrabah Aboriginal property developer in submission of Queensland State Aboriginal lands inquiry entitled Great Expectations or Grand Delusions
• 20140800 as wet tropics land management academic author "Indigenous peoples and biodiversity protection in wet tropics country: from co-management to collaborative governance: Volume 1 Interim policy-relevant findings" CSIRO Report to National Environmental Research Program"
• 20140812 as Mandingalbay Yidinji representative @ UN World Parks Congress in "WORLD PARKS CONGRESS WRAP UP" Wet Tropics Management Authority
• 20170403 as Yidinji Elder & Land Trust Chair "Call for egg harvesting and Yarrabah croc farm" Cairns Post
• 20170403 as Aboriginal Land Trust Chair "Doubt cast on Yarrabah croc farm plan" Cairns Post

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Emerging Biographical Themes & Dimensions for Article

Family

• Fred Mundraby (c.1883-c.1942?)

from AIATSIS Signficance Assessment Report 22 August 2014] a sketchbook, 1941 Fred Mundraby (traditional name Mandi Ngarrbay) was a Yidiny artist and shield maker workingat the former mission at Yarrabah on the traditional lands of the Gunggandji people in Far North] Fred Mundraby (traditional name Mandi Ngarrbay) was a Yidiny artist and shield maker workingat the former mission at Yarrabah on the traditional lands of the Gunggandji people in Far North Queensland. In 1941, Mundraby was commissioned by the mission superintendent C.G. Wormsto produce this unique sketchbook. It contains 19 drawings of shields that represent contemporary versions of traditional designs. The designs are outlined in pencil and painted innatural pigments. The drawings are of extraordinary artistic and aesthetic merit, and of arthistorical significance, in that they show how abstracted designs found on traditional rainforestand gulmari shields from eastern Queensland may be derived from natural, figurative forms suchflora and fauna, as well as man-made objects. Each drawing is annotated by Worms andcontains Yidiny terms

Yarrabah

• Budabadoo
• Mundraby Farm
• Deed of Grant in Trust
• Aboriginal Local Government
• Aboriginal Property Planning

Wet Tropics

• Aboriginal Self-Determination
• Which Way Our Cultural Surivival

Mandingalbay Yidinji

• Native Title Application/s
• Native Title Agreement/s
• Native Title Determinations
• Aboriginal Property Management
• Aboriginal Property Ownership
• Aboriginal Property Development

• 20050930 Noble v Mundraby 2005 FCAFC 212 Frederick Noble sought to appeal against a decision of his Honour Justice Spender inCombined Mandingalbay Yidinji-Gunggandji Claim v Queensland

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Native Title Story

from 19971008 Present to JOINT COMMITTEE ON NATIVE TITLE AND THE ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDER LAND FUND on Native Title Amendment Bill

• presented concern post-Wik native title amendments will extinguish & prevent any native tittle claim being made to 2 x pre-mission leases

[one, 580 acres, was issued in 1883; the second, 650 acres, was issued in 1884. Both leases expired in 1894, in 1892, the Yarrabah mission was founded by Gribble] within the Yarrabah Deed of Grant in Trust ..

• adevises they documented oral history and evidence of my ancestors having big battles with the people who tried to take up the lease/s

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