# Jean Jimmy

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**Andruana Ann Jean Jimmy** (30 September 1912 – 17 October 1991) was an Aboriginal Australian activist and politician known for campaigning against the closure of the aboriginal Mapoon Reserve and her subsequent forced removal.

## Biography

Jimmy was born on 30 September 1912 near the [Pennefather River](/source/Pennefather_River) in [Far North Queensland](/source/Far_North_Queensland), Australia. She was the second of three children; her brother was Richard (1898–?), also known as Dick Luff, and her sister was Maggie (1910–?).[1] Both her parents were of [Wimaranga](/source/Wimaranga) ancestry and her name, Andruana, meant [wattle](/source/Acacia) in their native language, signifying feminine resolve. She spent most of her formative years in a [Presbyterian](/source/Presbyterian) lodging in [Mapoon](/source/Mapoon), rarely seeing her father, Philip, who was an [evangelist](/source/Evangelism) for aboriginal people. On 29 August 1933, she married sailor Gilbert Jimmy; they relocated to Thursday Island after [World War II](/source/World_War_II). She later protested the leasing of a significant area of the Mapoon Reserve to mining, before being forcibly removed along with other fellow Aboriginal people to [New Mapoon, Queensland](/source/New_Mapoon,_Queensland). She revealed her experiences to the 1964 [Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders](/source/Federal_Council_for_the_Advancement_of_Aborigines_and_Torres_Strait_Islanders) Conference. She later served as the leader of the local council for two years, before moving to [Weipa South](/source/Napranum,_Queensland), where she served as leader of the local council for three years. Jimmy also provided [Les Hiddins](/source/Les_Hiddins) with medicinal information that her mother had taught her. She died on 17 October 1991 at Weipa Hospital and was buried in the Mapoon cemetery. A Land and Sea Centre in Mapoon was posthumously named after her.[2]

## References

1. ["Andruana Ann Jean Jimmy: A Mapoon leader's struggle to regain a homeland"](http://press-files.anu.edu.au/downloads/press/n4630/pdf/article04.pdf). *Australian Journal of Biography and History*. '***(1): 79–92. ANU Press. 2018.***

1. Wharton, Geoff. "Jimmy, Andruana Ann Jean (1912–1991)". Retrieved 26 August 2019.

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