Jeremy Geia
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{{Use Australian English|date=July 2018}}
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| name = Saint Murrumu of Walubara
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| office1 = Foreign Affairs Minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government
| term_start1 = 2014
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| 1blankname1 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata1 = Gudju-Gudju Gimuybara
| office2 = Trade Minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government
| term_start2 = 2014
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| 1blankname2 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata2 = Gudju-Gudju Gimuybara
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| office4 = Communications & Broadband Minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government
| term_start4 = unknown
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| 1blankname4 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata4 = Gudju-Gudju Gimuybara
| office5 = Financial Technology Minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government
| term_start5 = unknown
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| predecessor5 =
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| 1blankname5 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata5 = Gudju-Gudju Gimuybara
| office6 = Renewable Energy Minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government
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| 1blankname6 = Chief Minister
| 1namedata6 = Gudju-Gudju Gimuybara
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| birth_name = Jeremy Geia
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1974}}
| birth_place = Cairns, Queensland, Australia
| nationality = Yidindji
| citizenship = Australian {{small|(until 2014)}}
| occupation = Journalist, Activist
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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.{{cite news|last1=Howden|first1=Saffron|title=Murrumu Walubara Yidindji renounces citizenship to reclaim Australia|url=http://www.theage.com.au/nsw/murrumu-walubara-yidindji-renounces-citizenship-to-reclaim-australia-20151102-gkok6g.html|accessdate=5 November 2015|work=The Age|date=2 November 2015}}
Early life
Geia was born in Cairns in 1974 to an Aboriginal mother and Croatian Jewish father.{{cite news |last1=Albeck-Ripka |first1=Livia |title=The Indigenous Man Who Declared His Own Country |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/13/world/australia/indigenous-walubara-yidinji.html |access-date=5 October 2021 |work=New York Times |date=13 September 2019}} In 1999, he won the NAIDOC Youth of the Year award.{{cite news|title=Award Winners 1999 |url=http://aiatsis.gov.au/sites/default/files/docs/digitised_collections/the_koori_mail/206.pdfY |accessdate=5 November 2015 |work=Koori Mail |date=28 July 1999 }}{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} In 2001 Geia, as self-appointed President, symbolically declared the "Peoples Democratic Republic of Palm Island" independent from Australia.{{cite journal|last1=Eyers|first1=Patrick|last2=D'Souza|first2=Carl|title=Recent Happenings|journal=Indigenous Law Bulletin|date=2001|url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/IndigLawB/2001/83.html|accessdate=5 November 2015}}
Journalism career
Geia was an NITV and SBS journalist,{{cite web|title=Jeremy Geia|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/news/person/jeremy-geia|publisher=SBS|accessdate=4 November 2015}} who was part of the Canberra Press Gallery. In 2012 he became the first western journalist to obtain an interview with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.{{cite news|last1=Daley|first1=Paul|title=The man who renounced Australia|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/postcolonial/2014/aug/26/-sp-the-man-who-renounced-australia|accessdate=5 November 2015|work=The Guardian|date=26 August 2014}} He left his job when he renounced Australian citizenship.
Sovereign Yidindji Government
Murrumu has served as the foreign affairs minister and the trade minister of the Sovereign Yidindji Government for about 10 years, he additionally serves in the portfolios of Communications & Broadband, Renewable Energy, and Financial Technology.{{cite web |title=TREATIES & TECHNOLOGY |url=https://events.yidindji.org/ |publisher=Intertribal Foreign Affairs Council Forum |access-date=18 October 2024}}
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.{{cite news|last1=Uhr|first1=Grace|title=Former journalist who renounced Australian citizenship charged|url=http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/cairns/former-journalist-who-renounced-australian-citizenship-charged/story-fnpqrsxl-1227372359462|accessdate=5 November 2015|work=Cairns Post|date=28 May 2015}}