Yunupingu, a senior Yolngu lore man, Gumatj clan leader and the keeper of songlines, has died on in north-east Arnhem Land on Monday, aged 74, after a long illness. His family have given permission for the use of his surname in this article, along with ...
Yunupingu, a senior Yolngu lore man, Gumatj clan leader and the keeper of songlines, has died in north-east Arnhem Land on Monday, aged 74, after a long illness.
As a young man, Yunupingu rose to prominence for his pioneering role in the Aboriginal Land Rights movement. Yunupingu with former prime minister Bob Hawke in 2014. As chair of the Northern Land Council, Yunupingu handed the Barunga Statement to Hawke in 1988.That case, along with the barks, contributed to the establishment of the Whitlam government’s Woodward royal commission in 1973. Yunupingu served on the royal commission as an adviser, as the inquiry sought ways to recognise Aboriginal land rights in the Northern Territory.
In the early ’90s, Yunupingu was instrumental in the Eva Valley Statement, which stemmed from a meeting of around 400 First Nations leaders responding to the 1992 Mabo decision that overturned the terra nullius doctrine.Melanie Faith Dove/Yothu Yindi Foundation In 1993, Yunupingu established the Yothu Yindi Foundation alongside other Yolngu leaders from five regional clan groups. During the ’90s he also continued practising his visual art, contributing to many of the early album covers by musical group Yothu Yindi.In 1998, the National Trust of Australia named Yunupingu as one of its national living treasures. Before the decade ended, he also founded the Garma Festival with his brother, Dr M Yunupingu.
There, Yunupingu again stressed the importance of unity through constitutional reforms to recognise First Nations, and expressed his ongoing frustrations with the ducking and bilking on commitment from Canberra. to Garma and had the Gumatj men take me down to the ceremonial area, and I was asked to lead the elders and the men out to the crowd for the opening ceremony. When I sat beside him, he said, ‘It’s good when our cultures come together’, and we sat side by side,” Wyatt told this masthead.
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