Saint Murrumu of Walubara | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Foreign Affairs Minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chief Minister | Gudju-Gudju Gimuybara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Trade Minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chief Minister | Gudju-Gudju Gimuybara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Jeremy Geia 1974 (age 49–50) Cairns,Queensland,Australia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Citizenship | Australian (until 2014) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Yidindji | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Occupation | Journalist,Activist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Murrumu Walubara Yidindji,Saint Murrumu of Walubara (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,as self-appointed President,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.
Murrumu has served as the Foreign Affairs Minister and the Trade Minster of the Sovereign Yidindji Government for about 10 years,he additionally serves in the portfolios of Communications &Broadband,Renewable Energy,and Financial Technology. [8]
Murrumu 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]
Anthony John Abbott is an Australian former politician who served as the 28th prime minister of Australia from 2013 to 2015. He held office as the leader of the Liberal Party of Australia and was the member of parliament (MP) for the New South Wales division of Warringah from 1994 to 2019.
Australian Indigenous sovereignty,also recently termed Blak sovereignty,encompasses the various rights claimed by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within Australia. Such rights are said to derive from Indigenous peoples' occupation and ownership of Australia prior to colonisation and through their continuing spiritual connection to land. Indigenous sovereignty is not recognised in the Australian Constitution or under Australian law.
Kevin Buzzacott,often referred to as Uncle Kev,was an Aboriginal Australian rights campaigner and elder of the Arabunna nation in northern South Australia. He campaigned widely for cultural recognition,justice,and land rights for Aboriginal people. He initiated and led numerous campaigns,including against uranium mining at Olympic Dam mine on Kokatha land and the exploitation of the water from the Great Artesian Basin. He also published a collections of poetry,which included the content of his keynote address at a 1998 conference.
National Indigenous Television (NITV) is an Australian free-to-air television channel that broadcasts programming produced and presented largely by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. It includes the six-day-a-week NITV News Update,with programming including other news and current affairs programmes,sports coverage,entertainment for children and adults,films and documentaries covering a range of topics. Its primary audience is Indigenous Australians,but many non-Indigenous people tune in to learn more about the history of and issues affecting the country's First Nations peoples.
Australia–Kosovo relations refer to the bilateral relations of Australia and Kosovo. Kosovo and Australia officially established diplomatic relations on 21 May 2008. Kosovo has an embassy in Canberra,which was opened in February 2013. The Ambassador of Australia to Kosovo is subordinate to the embassy in Vienna.
Henrietta Marrie is a Gimuy Walubara Yidinji elder,an Australian Research Council Fellow and Honorary Professor with the University of Queensland.
Malarndirri Barbara Anne McCarthy is an Indigenous Australian politician and former journalist who has been a Senator for the Northern Territory since 2016. She is the Minister for Indigenous Australians in the Albanese Government since 29 July 2024. She previously served in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly.
Racism in Australia comprises negative attitudes and views on race or ethnicity which are held by various people and groups in Australia,and have been reflected in discriminatory laws,practices and actions at various times in the history of Australia against racial or ethnic groups.
Kenneth George Wyatt is an Australian former politician. He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2010 to 2022,representing the Division of Hasluck for the Liberal Party. He is the first Indigenous Australian elected to the House of Representatives,the first to serve as a government minister,and the first appointed to cabinet.
Multiple citizenship is a person's legal status in which a person is at the same time recognized by more than one country under its nationality and citizenship law as a national or citizen of that country. There is no international convention that determines the nationality or citizenship status of a person,which is consequently determined exclusively under national laws,that often conflict with each other,thus allowing for multiple citizenship situations to arise.
In Australia,Indigenous land rights or Aboriginal land rights are the rights and interests in land of Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islander people;the term may also include the struggle for those rights. Connection to the land and waters is vital in Australian Aboriginal culture and to that of Torres Strait Islander people,and there has been a long battle to gain legal and moral recognition of ownership of the lands and waters occupied by the many peoples prior to colonisation of Australia starting in 1788,and the annexation of the Torres Strait Islands by the colony of Queensland in the 1870s.
Jack Andrew Jans or Jack Wilkie-Jans is an Australian Aboriginal affairs advocate,multi-disciplinary artist,writer,and politologist.
Jacquiline Louise Lambie is an Australian politician who is the leader and founder of the Jacqui Lambie Network (JLN). She is a Senator for Tasmania since 2019,and was previously a Senator from 2014 to 2017.
Utopia is a 2013 documentary film written,produced and presented by John Pilger and directed by Pilger and Alan Lowery,that explores the experiences of Aboriginal Australians in modern Australia. The title is derived from the Aboriginal homeland community of Utopia,Northern Territory,one of the poorest and most desolate areas in Australia.
The Sovereign Yidindji Government or Yidindji Tribal Nation is an Aboriginal Australian micro-nation that claims to exercise Australian Aboriginal sovereignty. Led by Murrumu Walubara Yidindji,members of the Yidindji nation renounced legal ties with Australia in 2014. The land they claim lies in the state of Queensland and stretches "south of Port Douglas,through Cairns,inland across the Atherton Tablelands and 80 kilometres (50 mi) out to sea”. The chief minister is Gudju Gudju Gimuybara,while Murrumu is foreign affairs and trade minister.
The Yidiny,are an Aboriginal Australian people in Far North Queensland. Their language is the Yidiny language.
Starting in July 2017,the eligibility of several members of the Parliament of Australia was questioned. Referred to by some as a "constitutional crisis",fifteen sitting politicians were ruled ineligible by the High Court of Australia or resigned pre-emptively. The situation arose from section 44(i) of the Australian Constitution,which prohibits parliamentarians from having allegiance to a foreign power,especially citizenship. On that basis,the High Court had previously held that dual citizens are ineligible for election unless they have taken "reasonable steps" to renounce the foreign citizenship before nomination.
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice,also known as the Indigenous Voice to Parliament,the First Nations Voice or simply the Voice,was a proposed Australian federal advisory body to comprise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,to represent the views of Indigenous communities.