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Festival started from a broken promise looks to future

The Garma festival was born out of the disappointment of a broken promise; 25 years later, local Yolngu leaders are looking to the future for their people.

AAP · Aug 8, 2025

First Garma festival without powerhouse leader Yunupingu to begin as voice referendum looms

First Garma festival without powerhouse leader Yunupingu to begin as voice referendum looms

Gathering will open with a memorial to beloved festival founder as leaders call on Australians to together ‘change the nation’

The Guardian - AU · Aug 3, 2023

Aboriginal Australian ‘national treasure’ Yunupingu dies

Aboriginal Australian ‘national treasure’ Yunupingu dies

Yunupingu played a pivotal role in Aboriginal Australians’ fight for ancestral land rights during the 1960s and 70s.

Al Jazeera · Apr 3, 2023

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Yunupiŋu was a great clan leader, a great family man and very much loved. I wish Australian political leaders could have learned more from him

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names and images of deceased people. Yunupiŋu’s family have given permission for his name and images to be used.

The Conversation · Apr 3, 2023

Yunupingu: Indigenous Australian 'national treasure' dies aged 74

Yunupingu, one of Australia's most influential Indigenous leaders has died aged 74, his family said on Monday, months before a referendum on whether to recognise the community for the first time in the country's constitution.

Reuters · Apr 3, 2023

Yunupingu, ‘the rock that stands against time’, leaves an indelible mark in struggle for Indigenous rights

Deeply schooled in traditional law through language, song and dance, this extraordinary Aboriginal leader’s voice will not be forgotten

The Guardian - AU · Apr 3, 2023

Tributes flow for Indigenous land rights activist and Gumatj clan leader Yunupingu

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese leads the tributes for the Gumatj clan leader, remembering him as a man who "walked in two worlds with authority, power and grace".

ABC News · Apr 3, 2023

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A political warrior who walked tall in two worlds — how Yunupingu opened Australia's eyes

A political warrior who walked tall in two worlds — how Yunupingu opened Australia's eyes

From a land rights "radical" to a steely elder who had the ear of successive prime ministers, the late northeast Arnhem Land leader, Yunupingu, leaves a powerful legacy.

ABC News · Apr 2, 2023

Aboriginal land rights champion Yunupingu dies in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory

Aboriginal land rights champion Yunupingu dies in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory

One of Australia's most influential Aboriginal leaders, the trailblazing land rights fighter Yunupingu, has died in the Northern Territory aged 74.

ABC News · Apr 2, 2023

Yunupingu, Yolŋu leader and campaigner for Indigenous rights, dies aged 74

Yunupingu, Yolŋu leader and campaigner for Indigenous rights, dies aged 74

Elder spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of his people, from the Yirrkala bark petitions of 1963 to the voice to parliament

The Guardian - AU · Apr 2, 2023

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