Napperby Station, also known as Napperby, is a
pastoral lease
A pastoral lease, sometimes called a pastoral run, is an arrangement used in both Australia and New Zealand where government-owned Crown land is leased out to Pastoral farming, graziers for the purpose of livestock grazing on rangelands.
Austral ...
used as a
cattle station
In Australia and New Zealand, a cattle station is a large farm ( station is equivalent to the American ranch), the main activity of which is the rearing of cattle. The owner of a cattle station is called a '' grazier''. The largest cattle stati ...
in the
Northern Territory
The Northern Territory (abbreviated as NT; known formally as the Northern Territory of Australia and informally as the Territory) is an states and territories of Australia, Australian internal territory in the central and central-northern regi ...
of Australia.
History
The station was established on
Anmatyerre
The Anmatyerr (also spelt Anmatyerre, Anmatjera, Anmatjirra, Amatjere and other variations) are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory, who speak one of the Upper Arrernte languages.
Language
Anmatyerr is divided into Eas ...
tribal land at the beginning of the 20th Century. The Chisholm family owned Napperby Station "on and off" from 1948 til 2016.
The anthropologist T.G.H. Strehlow visited the station on his first fieldwork trip in 1932 to record songs and Anengkerr (dreaming) stories from the elder Friday Mpetyan.
Non-exclusive
Native title
Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the land rights of indigenous peoples to customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty to that land by another colonising state. The requirements of proof for the recognition of ab ...
was granted by the
Federal Court of Australia
The Federal Court of Australia is an Australian superior court which has jurisdiction to deal with most civil disputes governed by federal law (with the exception of family law matters), along with some summary (less serious) and indictable (mo ...
to the Anmatyerr and
Arrernte people
The Arrernte () people, sometimes referred to as the Aranda, Arunta or Arrarnta, are a group of Aboriginal Australian peoples who live in the Arrernte lands, at ''Mparntwe'' (Alice Springs) and surrounding areas of the Central Australia regi ...
over Napperby Station in 2013 by consent. Both claims were first filed in 2005 after mining leases were granted in the area. The
Central Land Council
The Central Land Council (CLC) is a land council that represents the Aboriginal peoples of the southern half of the Northern Territory of Australia (NT), predominantly with regard to land issues. it is one of four land councils in the Northern ...
submitted new applications for native title rights over the whole pastoral lease in 2011. The court sat at the small local community of
Laramba.
Current use
the station was managed by Roy and Janet Chisholm. They run
Santa Gertrudis cattle
The Santa Gertrudis is an American list of cattle breeds, breed of beef cattle. It is a taurine-indicine hybrid breed, descended from both zebu and European cattle. It was bred in the early twentieth century in Texas, and received official recog ...
on the property.
Napperby was sold for A$20 million to Tim Edmunds, a local pastoralist, in 2017.
Notable people
*Artist
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri AO (1932 – 21 June 2002) was an Australian painter, considered to be one of the most collected and renowned Australian Aboriginal artists. His paintings are held in galleries and collections in Australia and ...
was born at Napperby in 1932.
*Artist
Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri
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Billy Stockman Tjapaltjarri ( – 5 September 2015) was an Anmatyerr Australian artist.
Biography
He was born at Ilpitirri near Mount Denison, was one of Australia's best-known artists of the Western Desert Art Movement, Papunya T ...
was raised on the station.
See also
*
List of ranches and stations
This is a list of ranches and sheep and cattle stations, organized by continent. Most of these are notable either for the large geographic area which they cover, or for their historical or cultural importance.
Africa
* Obudu Cattle Ranch
* S ...
References
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Pastoral leases in the Northern Territory