1986.

Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation (QTTC) staff, followed by Sir Frank Moore (QTTC Chairman) and the Queensland Minister for Tourism, visited Nguddaboolgan and Kondaparinga Station to see if a small tourist resort should be built, and tourist enterprise developed within the vicinity of Ngarrabullgan, offering tourists an 'experience' of the mountain and surrounding heritage.

1988.

QTTC had prepared and costed the feasibility of developing the tourism potential of Nguddaboolgan, and, by this time there was some genuine commercial interest in purchasing Kondaparinga property and Ngarrabullgan to enable a corporation operating out of Port Douglas to offer tourists and visitors an exciting, authentic 'outback Queensland' experience.

1990.

The person occupying Kondaparinga pastoral property and joint owner of the property
(Mr Reg Adams) approached people then living in Mareeba expressing a strong wish to see Ngarrabullgan sold to the Djungan People who had enjoyed free access to his property for many years. The other owner of the property, Skyfleet, wished to see the property sold to the Japanese owned consortium who were interested in developing the property's identified tourism potential.

1991.

On 27 July over 150 Djungan people had travelled from Cairns, Yarrabah, Innisfail, Townsville, Chillagoe and Mareeba, to re-unite and form the Kuku Djungan Aboriginal Corporation; to raise the pan-Australian Aboriginal flag; and to resolve to regain ownership of Ngarrabullgan.

In August of that year the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC) approved the purchase of Kondaparinga Station, and Ngarrabullgan, for the Djungan people.

By December Kondaparinga Station had been purchased, and the Djungan People had regained ownership of Ngarrabullgan. Queensland Government's Department of Environment had sought to excise Ngarrabullgan from the property at the time of purchase, but, at the last moment, it was negotiated that Ngarrabullgan remain part of the property.