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June 2024

  • Rev Dr Gondarra OAM.

    Rev Dr DJ Gondarra, Yolŋu elder and advocate for political and spiritual freedom, dies aged 79

  • Northern Territory politician pays tribute to Yolŋu elder Rev Dr DJ Gondarra - video

April 2023

  • The former NSW deputy Liberal leader Bruce Baird.

    Australia news live
    Former NSW deputy Liberal leader says party has ‘moved too far to the right’ – as it happened

  • Anthony Albanese with Yunupingu at last year’s Garma festival

    ‘A great Australian’: Anthony Albanese leads tributes to Yunupingu

  • Yunupingu at the opening of Garma in 2022

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

    Chips Mackinolty
  • Yunupingu at Garma 2019

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

November 2022

  • 2022 ARIA Awards - Media Room<br>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NOVEMBER 24: Baker Boy poses with the ARIA award for Best Solo Artist during the 2022 ARIA Awards at The Hordern Pavilion on November 24, 2022 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Hanna Lassen/Getty Images)

    Arias 2022: Yolŋu rapper Baker Boy dominates music awards with five wins

    Amyl and the Sniffers win group of the year while Tones And I wins song of the year at the first in-person ceremony since 2019

August 2022

  • King Stingray

    King Stingray review – irresistibly joyful debut album from the Yolngu surf-rock kings

  • A Gumatj girl is sitting on the ground as someone paints a yellow line across her forehead. The girls face is illuminated by the sun while everything else is in shadow. The person painting her also has white paint on their hands

    Ceremony and celebration at the 2022 Garma festival – in pictures

July 2022

  • Mary Dhapalany finds djundom (Morinda tree) root at Wulkabimirri.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘Bringing the sun in’: the hardworking weavers of Bula’Bula dig colour from the red earth

    On a hot day in eastern Arnhem Land, three women collect pandanus leaves and djundom roots – and offer a priceless masterclass into a rich cultural tradition

December 2021

  • Eunice Djerrkngu Yunupingu I am a Mermaid 2020 earth pigments and recycled print toner on Stringybark (Eucalyptus sp.) 255 x 57.0 cm © Djerrkngu Yunupingu, courtesy of Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre, Yirrkala

    Bark Ladies: the painters reimagining ancestral beings, mermaids and the Yolŋu universe – in pictures

  • Dhambit Munuŋgurr painting in her signature palette at the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala.

    The Guardian picture essay
    ‘It keeps me alive’: the politically potent bark paintings of Dhambit Munuŋgurr

November 2021

  • David Gulpilil in 2016

    Vale David Gulpilil: the inimitable actor who changed the movies, and changed us

    The star has left behind a profound body of work – and a permanent, inimitable impression on his industry
  • David Gulpilil

    David Gulpilil, a titanic force in Australian cinema, dies after lung cancer diagnosis

    The Indigenous actor, who was in his late 60s when he died, helped shape the history of Australian film
  • David Gulpilil on the red carpet at the 2015 AFI Aacta awards

    David Gulpilil obituary: Walkabout star a ‘consummate actor’ who helped reinvent Australian film

    Actor had key roles in Storm Boy, The Last Wave and worked with Rolf de Heer in The Tracker, Ten Canoes and Charlie’s Country

February 2021

  • A still from High Ground

    ‘I did this for my family’: how High Ground uses a ‘both ways’ approach to tell Australia’s story

    Yothu Yindi’s Witiyana Marika produced the film after decades of trust-building with traditional owners. He hopes it can serve as a model for the next generation

October 2020

  • Yirrnga Yunupiŋu on stage

    ‘Loud and proud, wrong and strong’: the ‘Yolŋu surf rock’ of Yothu Yindi’s next generation

    Dr M Yunupiŋu’s nephew and Stuart Kellaway’s son both joined the legendary group – but they’ve now got their own music to share: new band King Stingray

December 2019

  • A screen grab from Sunrise tv show on Channel 7. L-R Prue Macsween, Samantha Armytage, Ben Davis.

    Channel Seven settles defamation case with Aboriginal community over Sunrise segment

    Images of adults from the Yirrkala community were used in a segment where panellist called for Aboriginal children to be adopted by white families

August 2018

  • A young Gumatj girl being painted up in her clan’s traditional colours for bunggul (ceremonial dancing) at the Garma Festival in northeast Arnhem Land.

    Garma festival highlights – in pictures

  • Richard Flanagan

    The world is being undone before us. If we do not reimagine Australia, we will be undone too

    Richard Flanagan
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