BAMANGKA KABAN - Jabalbina

Bamangka Kaban May 2017

BAMANGKA KABAN

In this Edition:

CEO Report

New Staff Members

Business Development

NTTR Team

IPA Manager

Jabalbina Directors

Ranger Work Update

Staff Training

Danica new WHS

Officer

CYPAL Meeting Notice

Native Title Update

Sea Country Elders

Workshop

Newsletter of the Jabalbina Yalanji Aboriginal Corporation and Land Trust May 2017

Jalbu Jalbu Land and Sea Management Workshop

Jabalbina hosted a Jalbu Jalbu Land and Sea Management Workshop in March

that brought together women working in Aboriginal Corporations that work

towards managing both bubu and jalun. The workshop was held over three days

and invited women of the wet tropics region to come together to meet, share

stories and aspirations and discuss the roles of women in the workforce.

We started the day off with an emphasise on culture with a Welcome to Country

and traditional dancing performed by Kaba Kada and Kulki Traditional Owners.

We were then smoked and visited a sacred women’s site where we had the

opportunity to further feel welcomed, feel cleansed and relax with good

company. The second day of the workshop was busy with numerous

presentations taking place including Parks, Quarantine, HR and our

corporations.

We thank the women that were a part of our workshop. We thank them for the

distance they travelled and their contribution to the workshop. We would like to

thank Terrain and WTMA for the support they provided Jabalabina. We would

also like to thank the Rainforest Lodge staff for their generous hospitality.

Great work to the Jabalbina women, Danica, Anthea, Michelle and Allira for their

efforts in organising the workshop.

Jabalbina Office & Mossman Ranger Base

15 Sawmill Road PO Box 463 Mossman Qld

4873 Phone: 07 40 983 552

Fax: 07 40 982375

Ayton Ranger Base Second Street, Ayton QLD

4895 Phone: 07 40 608 137

Shipton’s Flat Ranger Base Collingwood Road, Rossville

QLD 4895 Phone: 07 40 695 828

[email protected]

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This newsletter highlights the enormous amount of work that is underway this year. We are developing a new

enterprise arm within Jabalbina to create more jobs for Bama. As a result, we have secured new contracts to

continue cleaning up the old Collingwood Tin mine and have contract work coming up with QPWS. We have also

submitted a tender to the Douglas Shire Council to undertake mowing services around Mossman. While in tourism

we have recently received some funding from QPWS to start planning for camping grounds and a trail network to

support business development on Yalanji Bubu. If you are interested in working for Jabalbina please drop in your

resume as we will be looking for Bama to undertake these contracts.

The Indigenous Protected Area and Ranger programs have also been going well. Jabalbina is hosting a regional

ranger conference at the Shipton Flats Ranger Base the week of the 8th of May. Ranger from throughout the tropical

north will be converging on Kuku Nyungkal Bubu to share information and ideas about how to better manage

country. Rickie Burchill has been appointed as the IPA Manager. The Yalanji IPA plan has now been finalised and

we are hoping to have a dedication soon. Rickie and the rangers have also been working on progressing sea

country planning with an Elders summit planned for June to discuss sea country management.

You should also keep a look out for CYPAL meetings in your area. CYPAL provides an opportunity for National

Parks in the EKY ILUA area to be transferred to Aboriginal Freehold and for these to be jointly

managed with Traditional Owners. Conrad and Allira have been working with DATSIP to

organise information meetings to discuss the process and receive feedback from Bama.

Jabalbina has also recently purchased a backhoe. It will primarily be focused on contract and

ranger work but will aid in supporting community development activities. I am very excited

about these new opportunities and want to thank Directors for their support and staff for their

hard work as we continue to slowly create new opportunities for Yalanji Bama.

CEO Report

Welcome to the team Kellerina and Anthony! We are pleased to introduce two new staff members to the Jabalbina team. Kellerina Schreiber (Fischer)

as the new Jabalbina receptionist and Anthony Czygen as Jabalbina’s Enterprise Manager. Both Kellerina

and Anthony will be based in Mossman with the exception of Anthony whom will be moving around the

community.


What is Jabalbina ?

The word Jabalbina

means “Home of the

Ancestors “.

Jabalbina Yalanji

Aboriginal

Corporation, with a

current membership

of 537 Eastern Kuku

Yalanji (EKY) bama,

was

established as a

Registered Native

Title Body

Corporate (RNTBC)

in 2007 to look after

the Native Title

interests of Eastern

Kuku Yalanji Bama.

Jabalbina Yalanji

Land Trust has the

responsibility of

holding the title to

Aboriginal Freehold

Land granted to

Eastern Kuku

Yalanji people by the

Queensland

Government as part

of the EKY

Indigenous Land

Use Agreements

( ILUAs).

Jabalbina is also the

registered Cultural

Heritage Body for

Eastern Kuku

Yalanji Country.

Strategic planning workshops last year identified the need to support tourism and

contracting business development to create more jobs for Yalanji Bama. As a result

Jabalbina advertised and subsequently employed Anthony Czygan as an Enterprise

Manager to support business development.

Anthony has run his own business working as a contractor and running a tourism fishing

charter in the Northern Territory. His contracting experience involved working on

government housing, private, and commercial developments in very remote Aboriginal

communities like Arnhem Land, Derby, Kimberly and Cape York. He is a Kuku Nyungkal

Traditional Owner and has worked with a lot of Aboriginal people on these projects.

He brings this experience to the job and has said that working for himself has taught him

good lessons to see jobs through, to dig deep when confronted with challenges, to be

flexible, negotiate contracts and understand the process in order to win contracts.

Working with the CEO, Anthony has been following up business opportunities with Local

Governments, Tourism Operators and Peak bodies, World Trails, QPWS, Wet Tropics

Management Authority, and the GBRMPA.

Funding support has been secured from QPWS to do concept planning around trails and

camp grounds to support tourism businesses. The plan is to build a series of camp

grounds across Yalanji Bubu linked with walking and mountain biking trails. This will give

tourist a place to stay and provide local Bama businesses an opportunity to provide

cultural and adventure tourism experiences. There will also be jobs created in the

construction and maintenance phases of the project. Jabalbina looks forward to

discussing these opportunities with Traditional Owners at community and clan based

meetings. Jabalbina will be looking for TO support prior to moving forward with these

projects.

Anthony has also been working on tenders for Local and State Government contracts. Jabalbina is hoping to secure a mowing contract with the Douglas Shire Council, further work rehabilitating the old Collingwood mine site and some land management contacts with QPWS. If you have machinery tickets or are interested in labouring

work and Jabalbina doesn’t already have your resume drop one in. We expect to have some casual work coming up delivering these contracts. If you are a Yalanji business and want more information you can contact Jabalbina and ask to talk to Anthony.

Jabalbina supporting business development


Since starting at Jabalbina late last year, Allira and myself have been kept on our toes. National Parks

(CYPAL) has been in the negotiation and process planning stage to ensure that we follow a strong

and culturally appropriate process that enables us to ‘tick all the boxes’.

Allira and I have met with a number of Traditional Owners with myself travelling on and off country

to communicate the significance of National Parks (CYPAL) and what this means for Bama.

We are currently in the process of arranging seven (7) CYPAL community

meetings to ensure that we engage and communicate with as many Eastern

Kuku Yalanji Bama and provide them with information of the CYPAL project. We

will also be able to discuss an approach to sufficiently negotiate with Traditional

Owners and the State.

For more information, please do not hesitate to contact the NTTR team.

Email: [email protected] Phone: 4098 3552 (Ask for Conrad or Allira)

IPA Manager Rickie Burchill

The Yalanji Indigenous Protected Area Plan is now complete and we are hoping to have a dedication soon to cele-

brate this milestone. Ranger teams have continued to work hard on country through some very hot periods this

summer. I have been working with Thomas Houghton and the Shipton Flats Ranger Team to organise a regional

ranger conference on Kuku Nyungkal country in mid May. The workshop is being supported by Terrain NRM and

WTMA and will bring rangers together from across the Wet Tropics region. It will be a great opportunity to spend

time on country sharing what we have been doing and learning from others.

Julaymba, Wujal and Jalunji Warra IPA meetings are also planned for late May and in June we will be hosting a

Jabalbina Sea Country Elders workshop. This will be a great stepping stone towards our sea management plan

and progression towards full time sea Rangers , Inspectors and a fully operational boat.

I have also been kept busy organising training. Jabalbina rangers are keen to be involved in

crocodile management. Mossman crew have already been involved in crocodile training and

have been actively engaged with EHP monitoring crocodiles . We want to roll this training

out to all the other ranger crews. I’m learning a lot as the new IPA Manager and have been

kept busy in the office. I’m looking forward to getting out more and working with rangers

and Traditional Owners in the new financial year.

Native Title Tenure Resolutions Team


Jabalbina staff took part in a team building workshop that was held at the end of March. Staff took part in self and team reflection activities that provided the opportunity for staff to develop themselves on a personal and professional scale. These activities helped individuals and teams to identify attributes with others, work through team jobs, break-down barriers and bond with team members and understand how we work by ourselves and with others. Pheobe Kitto assisted Jabalbina bringing her experience as a Human Resources consultant. We thank Pheobe for her assistance with the Jabalbina team building session.

Jabalbina’s corporate governance structure is made up of 6 Directors. A male and a female Director are appointed from each of the three primary dialect groups, Jalunji, Nyungkal or Yalanji.

The Directors meet regularly (at least quarterly) for one or two days depending on the volume and priority of matters requiring their consideration. Given the limited staffing resources available, Directors provide much needed input into the operational as well as the strategic operations of the corporation. We also have a Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson which are elected by the Directors. Our Chairperson is Warren Kulka and Deputy Chairperson is Emma Burchill.

Nyungkal Gail Barry Warren Kulka Yalanji Emma Burchill Peter Wallace Jalunji Fiona Jose Charlie Mallie

Jabalbina Board of Director’s

Jabalbina Team Building

Absent Charlie Mallie. Recent Directors Meeting.


Mossman Ranger Base News:

Rickie Burchill is now the IPA Manager enable Adam Fisher to continue his secondment from Ayton Rangers

to Mossman. Nigel Minniecon has also been working casually with the Mossman Rangers.

Continued maintenance of Daintree Mission Cemetery as per Elders instructions and are now installing

fence palings

Continued maintenance of Cooya beach getting it ready

for the new Toilets and picnic area.

Continued maintenance of the Sawmill revegetation

block and will continue to plant trees there to reduce

sediment erosion

Continue to deliver Fire wood to The Mossman Gorge

Gate Way on a contract basis

Continue to maintain the Mossman Gorge Cemetery

Ranger Coordinator Update

My name is Phillip Minniecon, and for the last three years I have been the co-ordinator for the Jabalbina

ranger programme. In the three years that I have been co-ordinating the rangers I have been honoured and

very lucky to watch the rangers progress and achieve outcomes and dreams that they would have never

achieved if they weren’t employed as rangers working on their own country. As co-ordinator I also act as a

mentor assisting the younger generation with working on country and learning their culture. I have also had

the opportunity to share my experience in the mainstream culture as a heavy earth moving diesel fitter for

Queensland Rail 18 years and the Mining industry for 8 years with rangers of all ages.

For me to be working on country and representing all my mob after working away from

country and my mob for years, is like a dream come true. Another thing I love about

working with my mob is the ups and downs and knowing that I can confide in any of

the rangers especially the older rangers and the management team when I am feeling

down and out, and they all seem to have good advice and treat each other like family

members.

I would like also to THANK the state government and the Federal government, through their WOC and EHP programmes for assisting and supporting the ranger programmes

Jabalbina Ranger news


Ayton Ranger Base News:

Bradley Creek is now the Ayton Team Leader and Anthea Solomon has also jointed the team for a period.

Bradley Creek now Ayton team leader and Anthea has been transferred to the Wujal crew by her own re-

quest leaving a room vacant for the Mossman crew which we decided to fill casually through Nigel Min-

niecon

Continued to work on Degarra Burial sites , Bannabilla walking track and Zig Zag camping ground

Cleaned family burial areas at Buru

Patrols of Bulban and Weary Bay for rubbish fallen trees and also

illegal campers.

Jabalbina assisted with stopping and recording two illegal fisherman

as they were found camping and illegally netting. The fisherman were

reported to the Cookshire council.

Continued working on base landscaping and tree planting.

Maintenance of tracks out at Jajikal

Signs up on the Bloomfield coast

Shiptons Ranger Base News:

Thomas Houghton has been leading the Shipton Flat Ranger Team which has been busy this year preparing for

the regional ranger workshop as well as their normal work program.

Continued to monitor salvinia outbreak at Mt Poverty with Jason Carrol of South Cape York Catchments.

Fence maintenance out at Trevathen

Cultural heritage works done on two significant sights by Shiptons Flat crew with reports and GPS coordi-

nates that will be placed in to the EKY Data Base.

Preparations for Ranger Conference with the help of Mossman, Shipton and Ayton (cleaning base, water

blasting cement , cutting bulk fire wood stocks , removing more trees

on the slopes to make room for more campers, cleaning of Dongas

and Mess Hall Kitchen

Maintaining camp grounds Twin Bridges

Removal of wastes on Colling wood mine contracting

Dam water monitoring at Collingwood mine.

Feral animal monitoring


Personal development provides the opportunity for people to develop their skills and abilities, improve

identity and contribute to their dreams and aspirations. Jabalbina continues to support Jabalbina staff

whom are studying or training. A number of rangers have taken part in EHP Croc Training Level 1,

Side by Side (use of utility vehicles) workshops, whilst Vincent Tayley has recently taken part in a

tourism workshop.

Upcoming Training Workshops for 2017:

Level 1 Crocodile (Ayton and Shiptons Base)

Snake Handling

Side By Side ATV Training

Cert 4 in Conservation Land Management

Coxswains

Water Quality Testing

Chainsaw Level 3

Congratulations to Danica Reisener who successfully complete her Workplace Health and Safety

(WHS) Training at the start of the year. Danica is now the Jabalbina’s WHS Officer and some of her

roles and responsibilities in the workplace includes:

Ensure that the Jabalbina has, and uses, appropriate resources and processes to eliminate or minimise health and safety risks arising from work being done.

Ensure that the Jabalbina has appropriate processes in place to receive and respond promptly to information regarding incidents, hazards and risks.

Ensure that the Jabalbina has, and uses, processes for complying with duties or obligations under the Act.

Staff Training

Congratulations Danica!


Jabalbina is now providing Proof of Aboriginality documents for Eastern Kuku Yalanji Bama. If you

require one please contact the Mossman Jabalbina office or email reception. For more information

please read below.

Why do I need one?

You maybe asked to provide a Proof of Aboriginality document to receive services or programs that

are Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander identified. This ensures that these services or programs are

provided to Indigenous people only. Remember you do not need a Proof of Aboriginality document to

confirm that you identify as an Indigenous person.

When will I need one?

You maybe asked to provide a Proof of Aboriginality document when applying for Indigenous-

identified jobs, programs or services such as university programs, school summer camps or applying

for funding for educational purposes.

What is the eligibility of a Proof of Aboriginality document?

Three items of eligibility enable you to receive a Proof of Aboriginality document. They include:

being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent

identifying as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person being accepted as such by the community in which you live, or formerly lived.

Need Proof of Aboriginality Documents?


The North Queensland Land Council is researching a new Southern-warra (unofficial name) Native

Title claim and invited Traditional Owners to attend a meeting in Mossman recently. A significant

number of Eastern Kuku Yalanji Elders and family representatives attended this meeting as well as

people representing both Western Kuku Yalanji and Koko Muluridji. The research will consist of

anthropologist travelling throughout the research area recording as much information to support the

Native Title claim. Within the Eastern Kuku Yalanji boundary, the area that will be researched is from

Daintree to Mowbray River.

Elders and family representatives at the meeting agreed to discuss with other family members

information from the meeting and then meet again with the North Queensland Land Council to further

discuss the claim. For further information please seek advice from Eastern Kuku Yalanji Elders or

family representatives that attended the meeting. Jabalbina can also provide some information from

this meeting. For further information please contact the North Queensland Land Council who are

undertaking the research for the proposed native title claim.

A Kuku Yalanji Elders Sea Country workshop is being organised for June. The workshop will bring

Elders together from across Kuku Yalanji clan groups to discuss sea country management. Traditional

Owners are increasingly expressing concern about the sustainability of their sea country. Hunting and

fishing that doesn't respect traditional lore is occurring and there is a need to develop a Yalanji driven

plan to sustainably manage sea country.

The workshop will review and build on existing Indigenous Protected Area planning and support

Elders to agree on priorities for sea country management. It is hoped that a protocol can be developed

to manage key issues that can then be implemented by the Jabalbina Rangers.

By building on the IPA planning and developing protocols Jabalbina will be in a strong position to

argue for additional resources to support sea country management. Rangers want to be able to

manage sea country but need boats and additional training and resources.

If you would like more information about the Sea Country Elders Workshop contact Rickie Burchill,

Jabalbina IPA Manager.

NATIVE TITLE NEWS

Sea Country Elders Workshop


The Mossman NAIDOC 2017 celebrations are already on the table and is being organised by the Mossman NAIDOC committee. This years theme is ‘Our Languages Matter’ and aims to emphasise and celebrate the unique and essential role that Indigenous languages play in cultural identity, linking people to their land and water and in the transmission of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, spirituality and rites, through story and song. If you would like in input into this years celebrations please contact Brendon Leishman on 4099 9419 or email [email protected]. For more information please visit http://www.naidoc.org.au/ .

Mossman Naidoc Week 2017

Jabalbina at Previous NAIDOC Celebrations

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