in August 1996. On 30 March 2007, the Federal Court of Australia under Justice Anthony North determined on recognising the Gunditjmara People's non-exclusive native title rights and interests over of vacant Crown land, national parks, reserves, rivers, creeks and sea in the Portland region of Victoria's western district. between Dunkeld and Yambuk on Victoria's south-west coast were set aside to include the eastern Marr. On 27 July 2011, together with the Eastern Maar people, the Gunditjmara People were recognised to be the native title-holders of the 4,000 hectares of Crown including Lady Julia Percy Island, known to them as Deen Maar. Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation The Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation (GMTOAC) is a Registered Native Title Body Corporate (RNTBC) under the Commonwealth Native Title Act 1993, and a Registered Aboriginal Party under the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Act 2006. The TOAC owns culturally significant properties across Western Victoria on behalf of the Gunditjmara community. Notable people Geoff Clark, the first and only elected Aboriginal chairman of ATSIC Vicki Couzens, Vice Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellow at RMIT and senior knowledge custodian Johnny Cuzens, member of the First XI Aboriginal Cricket Team Dakota Davidson, Australian rules footballer Alfred Egan, the first indigenous player for Carlton and North Melbourne football clubs Isaiah Firebrace, singer who won the eighth season of The X Factor Australia and represented Australia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 Richard Frankland, playwright and musician Misty Jenkins, cancer researcher, Laboratory Head of Immunology at the Walter and Elizabeth Hall Institute of Medical Research at Melbourne University, first Indigenous Australian to attend Oxford and universities as a postdoctoral research fellow Chris Johnson, Brisbane Lions AFL player Nathan Lovett-Murray, Essendon AFL player Andrew Lovett, Essendon and St Kilda AFL player Ted Lovett, who was awarded Order of Australia Medal for services to the Indigenous community in south-west Victoria Wally Lovett, Richmond and Collingwood AFL player Norm McDonald, AFL player Archie Roach , musician, 2020 Victorian of the Year, winner of multiple Deadly Awards, ARIA Awards and other awards Lionel Rose , first Indigenous Australian of the Year, the first Indigenous World Champion Boxer, the first Indigenous person awarded a Gold Record for Music, first Indigenous recipient of an MBE Reg Saunders, first Aboriginal commissioned officer in the Australian Army Lidia Thorpe, a Gunai/Gunditjmara woman, first Aboriginal woman elected to the Parliament of Victoria, first Aboriginal Victorian federal MP (Australian