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McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Divinity

Southern Cross constellation in the night’s sky. Wikimedia Commons

May 5, 2022

Beyond angry protesters and inked arms, there’s this First Nations story of the Southern Cross – one of unity and belonging

Samuel Curkpatrick; Sarah Bacaller, and Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu, Indigenous Knowledge

Warlpiri Elder Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu interprets the Southern Cross, not as a contested symbol of identity, but as a summons to unite First Nations and non-Indigenous people.

Galiwin'ku, Elcho Island, the Yolngu people’s customary land. The lead singer of Yothu Yindi, a Yolngu band, died yesterday, aged 56. Flickr/boobook48

June 4, 2013

Yothu Yindi and the Yolngu culture: dreaming of a brighter day

Samuel Curkpatrick, Australian National University

The lead singer of the band Yothu Yindi died yesterday of kidney disease, aged 56. Only a few decades after radio, popular music and electric guitars spread through Arnhem Land in the 1960s, Yothu Yindi…

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