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The Prime Minister’s Literary Award winners include a collective Yolŋu novel – and a murder trial

This year’s winners of the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards query the instability of Australian identity. And the winners of the fiction and nonfiction prizes both point to the cruel legacy of European invasion and colonialism.

The Conversation

Garma festival shows Yolngu culture in full colour

As leaders talk policy at Garma, Yolngu men, women and children step onto the Bungul ground, using ochre, song and story to show Australians who they really are

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Didgeridoo rumble as Garma Festival bursts into life

Under a bruised-purple Arnhem Land sky, 13 Yolngu clans have drenched the red dust in ochre, song and didgeridoo as the Garma Festival explodes into colour.

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In the 1600s, a Yolŋu girl was kidnapped from an Australian beach. Centuries later her story is a novel

Based on a story from pre-colonial Australia, A Piece of Red Cloth is a pioneering, ‘real collaboration’ between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal storytellers

The Guardian - AU

Clare Wright’s history of the Bark Petitions is a work of intimate storytelling, written with ‘charismatic authority’

Clare Wright’s Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions – subtitled “how the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian democracy” – tells a story that is already well known.

The Conversation

‘Walk with me’: new Indigenous Australians minister Malarndirri McCarthy wants a new kind of discourse

As she begins role, McCarthy vows to work collegially with all sides of politics to improve outcomes for First Nations people

The Guardian - AU

Garma festival: Yunupingu’s legacy, the Indigenous voice and the fight for ‘a world that is better than the past’

Djawa Yunupingu says Yolngu have hope for the future and the referendum is a chance to unite Australia

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Yolngu elder and bilingual educator Yalmay Yunupingu retires from Yirrkala school

A dedicated Arnhem Land teacher and linguist described as a warrior for bilingual education is retiring after 40 years of fighting to keep Yolngu language and culture strong.

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NASA rocket to launch from Arnhem Land

A NASA rocket will launch from the NT on Sunday night, the agency's first in Australia in 27 years and the first from a commercial spaceport outside the US.

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