How the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian democracy
In 1963, a year of agitation for civil rights worldwide, the Yolŋu people of northeast Arnhem Land created the Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Ṉäku Dhäruk. ‘The land grew a tongue’ and the land-rights movement was born.
Ṉäku Dhäruk is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the trailblazers who made it. It is also a masterful, groundbreaking picture of the ancient and enduring culture of Australia’s First Nations peoples.
Written by award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and public commentator, Clare Wright. Ṉäku Dhäruk is the final instalment in the author’s Democracy Trilogy, which comprises The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka and You Daughters of Freedom.
You can read Ṉäku Dhäruk, available as an eBook, through the Charles Sturt Library.
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