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Yidindji

March 2016

  • Ye-I-Nie, whose possessions are part of the British Museum collection and are now on loan to an exhibition, Encounters, at the National Museum of Australia.

    Postcolonial
    Indigenous treasures, briefly on loan to Australia, are about to be taken away – again

    While some people have valued the opportunity to reconnect with the long lost objects of their ancestors, others are heartbroken that their sacred cultural property will soon be returned to the British Museum
  • Indigenous flag painted on a wall in Redfern, Sydney

    Treaty push should replace Indigenous Recognise campaign, says Yolngu leader

    Yingiya Mark Guyula wants constitutional recognition campaign resources to be redirected towards convincing Australians about the importance of treaties
  • Murrumu Walubara and his son Thoyo on a boat trip.

    Murrumu: one man's mission to create a sovereign Indigenous country inside Australia

    In 2014 the former press gallery journalist officially ‘quit’ Australia to form his own nation in Queensland. Almost two years later he is the Yidindji foreign minister, and it’s clear he’s doing much more than making a symbolic point

February 2016

  • Gaarn-Yarra Yalmabara, Murrumu Walubara Yidindji and Nigel Scullion

    Self-declared sovereign Indigenous nation recognised by Australian minister

    Murrumu Walubara Yidindji lauds Australia’s Indigenous affairs minister who recognised the presence of the Yidindji cabinet at a summit in Cairns

January 2016

  • Murrumu Walubara takes his son Thoyo.

    There's another government in Australia and Murrumu is taking it to the world

    Yaara Bou Melhem
    A new government has been created in Australia to represent a nation that has been there for thousands of years. Yaara Bou Melhem meets the man behind the sovereign Yidindji government

October 2015

  • Ernie Raymont, a Mumu-Ngajdon elder, at Boonjie in Australia, close to where the Butchers Creek massacre took place in 1887. This is close to the place from which the Ngadjon boy, who would become Douglas Grant, was stolen. Courtesy of Tarpaulin Productions 2015.

    Postcolonial
    From Butchers Creek to Berlin: did Douglas Grant see the body of an Indigenous relative in Germany?

    Paul Daley examines new evidence tracing the shared history of Ngadjon man Narcha, and Douglas Grant, the black Australian soldier and first world war one hero, who were both survivors of a Queensland massacre

August 2015

  • murrumu jeremy geia

    Postcolonial
    Indigenous activist Murrumu has fought the law this week. But who will win?

  • Bryn Mathews

    Indigenous activist Murrumu refuses to recognise court's legitimacy, supporter says – video

  • Murrumu Walubara Yidindji

    Indigenous activist Murrumu arrested for refusing to give his former name

  • Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, the former Canberra press gallery journalist previously known as Jeremy Geia, who has renounced Australia to live under tribal law in far North Queensland. Taken in August 2014

    Indigenous activist Murrumu detained after refusing to recognise former name

June 2015

  • Larissa Behrendt

    Who's afraid of the Indigenous middle class?

    Larissa Behrendt
  • Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, the former Canberra press gallery journalist previously known as Jeremy Geia, who has renounced Australia to live under tribal law in far north Queensland.

    Renouncing Australia: a dozen people to follow Murrumu by taking Yidindji citizenship

May 2015

  • Murrumu Walubara Yidindji, the former Canberra press gallery journalist previously known as Jeremy Geia, who has renounced Australia to live under tribal law in far North Queensland.

    Murrumu charged after driving with licence issued by his Indigenous nation

  • Celeste Liddle

    The 'no' campaign against Indigenous recognition isn't Cory Bernardi's to run

    Celeste Liddle

February 2015

  • A bark painting of a barramundi, West Arnhem Land, about 1961, that will feature in an upcoming British Museum exhibition

    Indigenous leaders fight for return of relics featuring in major new exhibition

    Three precious examples of bark art taken from the Dja Dja Wurrung people in central Victoria in the 1850s were sold to the British Museum. Now these and other treasures could return to Australia – on loan only – as part of an exhibition

January 2015

  • Murrumu Walubara Yidindji

    Canberra magistrate frees Indigenous 'trespasser' and queries charge

  • Paul Daley

    Postcolonial
    He renounced Australia and lives solely by tribal law. Now Murrumu is hitting the road

    Paul Daley

September 2014

  • Celeste Liddle

    Indigenous recognition: we have more diverse views than the official campaign

    Celeste Liddle
    Celeste Liddle: For any proposal to be representative, Australians must engage with the full spectrum of Indigenous views on sovereignty – not just the government’s supporters and their critics

August 2014

  • Murrumu Walubara Yidindji at Skeleton creek, near Cairns

    The man who renounced Australia

    Canberra press gallery journalist Jeremy Geia has walked away from his job, given up his passport and reverted to his tribal name, Murrumu Walubara Yidindji. He tells Paul Daley why he decided to ‘leave Australia’ while remaining on the continent – and that he still loves English breakfast tea
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