The special theme for this year's NAIDOC Week is the 50th anniversary of the historic Yirrkala Bark Petitions being presented to the Federal Parliament in Canberra in 1963. Yolngu people from Yirrkala ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) On August 16 1963, Cecil Lambert, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department of Territories, scribbled these words next to a news clipping of a day-old article in the ...

The Yolngu people have been unwavering in their fight for their country and their culture. The Yirrkala bark petitions tell that story Three years ago, at her home in the small town of Derby in ...

Governments come and go, but politicians of all stripes must walk past two of the most important living documents in this land’s history every day they serve at our pleasure (or otherwise) in Canberra ...

As Australians count down to the national referendum on the voice to parliament, the path to the historic vote can be traced back to a significant event 60 years ago. On August 14, 1963, two petitions ...

Elder spent a lifetime fighting for the rights of his people, from the Yirrkala bark petitions of 1963 to the voice to parliament The revered Yolŋu elder Yunupingu has died in his homelands after a ...

The 1963 Näku Dhäruk or Yirrkala bark petitions led to Australia's first land rights law. A new book about them just won two prizes at the NSW Literary Awards.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains the names and voices of deceased people. When was the last time you signed your name? Perhaps you are more familiar with ...

The NSW Literary Awards honoured a mix of established names and breakout voices on Monday night.

The senior Yolŋu elder and artist Yalmakany Marawili with her work in the Yolŋu power: the art of Yirrkala exhibition © Art Gallery of New South Wales, Diana ...

The Yirrkala Bark Petitions, as we now know these objects, have been called many things by many people over the past 60 years. “The most famous petition ever put to an Australian parliament,” declared ...