Yugambeh Citizenship

Am I a Yugambeh Citizen?

If you are a known descendent of a recognised Yugambeh Ancestor, including by adoption, and satisfy the criteria of our Nation’s law and custom, you are automatically a Yugambeh citizen.

Your right to Yugambeh citizenship depends on:

  • Your line of descent

  • Your birthplace

  • Your parents’ citizenship at the time of your birth

  • The residency history of your Yugambeh parent/s before your birth

  • The kinship associations of one’s parents and/or grandparents^

^ Kinship associations refer to interactions with the Yugambeh family group/s which one claims descent from; associating with non-Yugambeh Aboriginal residing within the Yugambeh Nation does not provide a basis for Yugambeh Citizenship.

I was born at the Gold Coast / Logan / Tweed / Beaudesert Hospital, and/or I have a long-term association with the Yugambeh Nation; am I entitled to citizenship?

It is not simply one’s association with or birth within the Yugambeh Nation that makes a person a Yugambeh Citizen. Yugambeh Citizenship is governed by the principle of Jus sanguinis - The Right of Blood.

I have family oral history that I may be Yugambeh, can I get citizenship?

Our Nation’s admin has been inundated with genuine and sincere claims that an individual believes they are Yugambeh, unfortunately a vast majority of these claims were proven incorrect with genealogical research revealing such people were either:

  1. Not of Yugambeh-Aboriginal descent, i.e. they descend from another Aboriginal Group, or

  2. Were of distant South-Sea Islander descent and held genuine beliefs such Ancestors had been Aboriginal.

The Yugambeh Nation has expended hundreds of dollars in acquiring Birth, Death, and Marriage certificates to date going back to the middle of the 19th century and the arrival of Europeans in our area, our rolls document ancestors, their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren (bringing us to roughly the 1960s), this means that if your parent or grandparent is not on our rolls, it is highly unlikely that you are Yugambeh.