Jeremy Geia

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Murrumu Walubara Yidindji (born 1974), also known by his former western name Jeremy Geia, is a Yidindji man, former journalist, and Australian Aboriginal activist. He is the foreign affairs minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government micronation, having renounced his Australian citizenship in 2014. [1]

Geia was born in Cairns in 1974 to an Aboriginal mother and Croatian Jewish father. [2] In 1999, he won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award. [3] In 2001 Geia symbolically declared the "Peoples Democratic Republic of Palm Island" independent from Australia. [4]

Geia was an NITV and SBS journalist, [5] who was part of the Canberra Press Gallery. [6] In 2012 he became the first western journalist to obtain an interview with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. [7] He left his job when he renounced Australian citizenship.

Geia was charged by police in May 2015 after being caught driving a car with a license and registration plates issued by the Yidindji government. [6]

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