Clare Wright’s history of the Bark Petitions is a work of intimate storytelling, written with ‘charismatic authority’
- Written by Timothy Michael Rowse, Emeritus Professor, History, Western Sydney University
Clare Wright’s Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions – subtitled “how the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian democracy” – tells a story that is already well known.
In August 1963, Yolngu living at the Yirrkala Methodist Mission in Arnhem Land submitted two petitions to the Australian Parliament....
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