Mayibarrdu or Goose Island, off the West Coast of the Yorke Peninsula in the Spencer Gulf of South Australia, will return to the hands of its Traditional Owners, the Narungga Nation.

This is following the Federal Court’s March 2023 recognition of the Narungga people as Native Title holders of the whole of the Yorke Peninsula.

The island has been leased exclusively to private school Scotch College since 1966 through the Department of Environment and Water.

Mayiburrdu is a small, rocky island west of Point Pearce. It is about 550 metres off the northern end of the much larger Wardang Island.

Today on Aboriginal Way, we’re speaking to Doug Milera, CEO of Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation.