Great-nephew seeks $30m over $50 note portrait
ABC - November 27, 2008, 11:03 am
The great-nephew of Indigenous author and inventor David Unaipon is meeting
with the Reserve Bank about what he has described as the "unauthorised use"
of his great-uncle's image on the $50 note.
Allan Campbell says permission to use Mr Unaipon's image was given by someone
posing as a relative before the polymer notes were introduced in 1995.
Mr Campbell says he is seeking a settlement of more than $30 million which he
will use to start a charity for children with mental health problems.
"We fellas have got to renegotiate proper settlement and I've got that
settlement in mind," he said.
"It's not going to be tea leaves, sugar and flour."
According to the Reserve Bank, Unaipon was a Ngarrindjeri man, born at the
Point McLeay Mission, on the Lower Murray in South Australia in 1872.
As an employee of the Aborigines' Friends' Association for many years, he
travelled widely and became well known through south-eastern Australia.
While on his travels, Unaipon lectured on his ideas, preached sermons and
spoke about Aboriginal legends and customs.
He also spoke of the need for 'sympathetic co-operation' between whites and
blacks, and for equal rights for both black and white Australians.
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