Short Black 12 Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow
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Tradition, Truth & Tomorrow is 'no mere essay. It is an existential prayer,' writes Noel Pearson. Galarrwuy Yunupingu tells of his clan and his early life. He recounts his dealings with prime ministers, and how he learnt that nothing is ever what it seems. And behind him, he writes, ‘the Yolngu world is always under threat, being swallowed up by whitefellas. This is a weight that is bearing down on me; at night it is like a splinter in my mind.’
Short Blacks are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind.
Galarrwuy Yunupingu is a member of the Gumatj clan from Yirrkala, in east Arnhem Land. He played a key role in the battle for indigenous land rights and has been a strong advocate for Aboriginal Australians. He was Australian of the Year in 1978, and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1985 for services to the Aboriginal community.
Galarrwuy Yunupingu
Galarrwuy Yunupingu is a member of the Gumatj clan from Yirrkala, in east Arnhem Land. He played a key role in the battle for indigenous land rights and has been a strong advocate for Aboriginal Australians. He was Australian of the Year in 1978, and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1985 for services to the Aboriginal community.
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Short Black 12 Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow - Galarrwuy Yunupingu
SHORT BLACKS are gems of recent Australian writing – brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind.
SHORT BLACKS
1 Richard Flanagan The Australian Disease: On the decline of love and the rise of non-freedom
2 Karen Hitchcock Fat City
3 Noel Pearson The War of the Worlds
4 Helen Garner Regions of Thick-Ribbed Ice
5 John Birmingham The Brave Ones: East Timor, 1999
6 Anna Krien Booze Territory
7 David Malouf The One Day
8 Simon Leys Prosper: A voyage at sea
9 Robert Manne Cypherpunk Revolutionary: On Julian Assange
10 Les Murray Killing the Black Dog
11 Robyn Davidson No Fixed Address
12 Galarrwuy Yunupingu Tradition, Truth and Tomorrow
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First published in the Monthly, December 2008.
This edition published 2015.
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National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:
Yunupingu, Galarrwuy, 1948– author.
Tradition, truth & tomorrow / Galarrwuy Yunupingu.
9781863957748 (paperback) 9781925203561 (ebook) Short blacks ; no.12.
Yunupingu, Galarrwuy, 1948–. Yolngu (Australian people).
305.89915
Cover and text design by Peter Long.
GALARRWUY YUNUPINGU is a member of the Gumatj clan from Yirrkala, in north-east Arnhem Land. He played a key role in the battle for indigenous land rights and has been a strong advocate for Aboriginal Australians. He was Australian of