Yolŋu
PeopleWikipedia
31
MENTIONS
14
EPISODES
12
PODCASTS
Search complete. 31 mentions across 14 episodes found for "Yolŋu".
Sep 25, 2026
BJ SilcoxGUEST
The winner is the first co-authored novel to have won the prize in the Prize's history, which is A Piece of Red Cloth.
BJ SilcoxGUEST
which is an extraordinary book of Yolngu oral history and Western storytelling merged together to make something that honours deep time and deep storytelling, but is also a parable of our present, about what happens when the fundamental certainties upon which you've built your life your culture and your life start to fracture and no one can trust each other anymore.
BJ SilcoxGUEST
It's a really extraordinary book.
BJ SilcoxGUEST
Also on that shortlist is a novel I think has just been underloved this year, which is called Out of the Woods by Gretchen Sherm.
Anna ClarkSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That is just totally mind-blowing to me as a historian.
Anna ClarkSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And so these two books, one of them is Song Spirals by the Gayo Group of Women, a Yolngu First Nations and Macquarie University collaboration, which seeks to tell some of that First Nations and Yolngu conception of land and country and also the ways we tell stories about country.
Anna ClarkSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So the ways we might history that country and the ways humans and Yolngu people and broader Australians can think about the country on which we live.
Anna ClarkSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I wanted to pair that with a non-First Nations history by Billy Griffiths, who wrote Deep Time Dreaming, which is really an account of the slow growth understanding, belated one might say, understanding and recognition of the depth of Australian history.
Anna ClarkSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And I mean depth in a temporal way.
Michelle AinsworthHOST
Here's Lorena again.
Lorena AllamGUEST
If the referendum had been successful, there would be a voice to Parliament set up to oversee a process of truth-telling, which it's the Yolngu concept of Makarratu, which means coming together after a struggle in the broadest sense.
Lorena AllamGUEST
But it's also about what Paul O'Connor talks about in Ireland, is to put aside old schisms and old prejudices and come together, start afresh and heal, moving forward together in peace.
Lorena AllamGUEST
And that's what I think the outcome of truth telling can be if we really throw our efforts into it.
speaker_9CORRESPONDENT
[crowd cheering] Bush Bands Bash is now in its 22nd year of celebrating and developing remote musical talent, a chance to share music and culture from far and wide, with artists from Alice Springs, Darwin, Armita in the APY Lands, Galiwin'ku off the coast of Arnhem Land, Nulumboy, Yirrkala, Yarralin, Mulgabbaw, and Nunindjara Country in WA.
speaker_9CORRESPONDENT
[upbeat music] The headline act on Sunday night was Marruwarr, sharing song lines and healing traditions of Yolnu culture through a fusion of yidaki, Yolnu name for didgeridoo, song, reggae, dub, and contemporary production.
speaker_9CORRESPONDENT
[slow music] The group is led by Galku clan leader and internationally acclaimed yidaki player Larry Gurruwiwi, bringing their Saltwater music to the center.
speaker_15SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My father, [crowd cheering] Jalu-
Vanessa McEvoyGUEST
Um, I'm gonna open up with, um...
Vanessa McEvoyGUEST
So I have a, a sole purpose, which is to give land back, but I also had a how do I want to live my life? And when we first met in 2019 on the Yolngu Retreat, my best friend Donna had made me a journal to keep my thoughts because it was such a big journey, um, linking in with the Yolngu people and all the, um, other things that happened on that retreat.
Vanessa McEvoyGUEST
And you were my osteo for my back.
Jin OngHOST
You might just have to share with people, um, what the Yolngu Retreat was, just as a little brief.
Vanessa McEvoyGUEST
Uh, so the Yolngu Retreat was, uh, Hope for Health where, um, Balanda, so white folks, basically contribute to a short journey with Yolngu, the people from Northeast Arnhem Land, about how do they regain their health back because there's a lot of, um, gaps into Aboriginal health, and this was just one step.
Vanessa McEvoyGUEST
You know, how do they, um, eat better, move better, um, and hopefully have better outcomes for their health.
Jin OngHOST
Mm.
SarahHOST
The NT Labor opposition has gained a sixth seat, with Yira McGraw comprehensively winning the Molka by-election.
SarahHOST
A Yolngu nurse, Mr McGraw secured more than 77% of the vote against independent candidate Andrew Blamey.
SarahHOST
However, the NT Electoral Commission reported only about a third of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot.
SarahHOST
Mr McGraw is a former NT Young Australian of the Year.
Kathleen GazzolaPANELIST
The NT Labor opposition has gained a sixth seat with UR McGrath comprehensively winning the Mulcah by-election.
Kathleen GazzolaPANELIST
A Yolngu nurse, Mr McGrath secured more than 77% of the vote against independent candidate Andrew Blamey.
Kathleen GazzolaPANELIST
However, the NT Electoral Commission reported only about a third of registered voters turned out to cast a ballot.
Kathleen GazzolaPANELIST
Mr McGrath is a former NT Young Australian of the Year and says his priorities will include improving housing and health infrastructure, especially in remote communities.
Shelly MartinGUEST
So that was also something that I've never experienced before.
Shelly MartinGUEST
Um, the region itself, the people, the Yolngu people, was just, as I said, one of those things that you would, you have to experience in your lifetime.
Shelly MartinGUEST
So I did it on a bit of a whim.
Shelly MartinGUEST
I did find out after I signed a contract my son was having a, a baby, so that brought me home to be a grandmother.
speaker_2SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So here we are-
Dechlan BrennanGUEST
We've seen Yininngu Guula, who's been a independent MP from Maluka, a Yolngu man, MP for ten years.
Dechlan BrennanGUEST
He walked away at the, uh, in the middle of August, basically citing an inability to work alongside the Northern Territory Government, um, but he used some really pointed language, including some of their laws as a slow genocide of Aboriginal people.
speaker_3NARRATOR
Arnhem Land Yolngu leader Yininngu Guula has resigned, blaming successive anti-governments for refusing to listen to indigenous concerns, accusing the CLP government of passing too many laws that are dehumanizing, oppressing, and destroying our communities, contributing to a slow genocide.
speaker_3NARRATOR
He's particularly angry about child protection changes deprioritizing Aboriginal family placements.
Leah FinocchiaroSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
They have always said, "Yeah, we think we know what's best for you."
Peter SuttonGUEST
You are a witness, and, uh, if, uh, if things get too bloody, then close kin of the woman, for example, would be entitled to intervene.
Peter SuttonGUEST
That doesn't always work because there's also evidence of what's called a spear in the ear from various areas, including the Yolngu area of Northeast Arnhem Land, where traditionally a woman who was being abused by her husband and maybe beaten, but also called rude names, if her brother was to be there and to hear her, his sister being called rude names, particularly to do with genitalia, he would feel compelled to attack her, not, not the assailant.
Peter SuttonGUEST
He would attack his sister, possibly with a spear.
Peter SuttonGUEST
So that's, that's the sort of, um, the cultural logic of that is perfectly correct in terms of, uh, the old rules and the old kinship system and the old tolerance of violence and so on.
4 more episodes mention Yolŋu.
Create an account to see the whole feed, search across every transcript, and follow the entities you care about.