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Yirrkala
Aborigines mourn the father of land rights
Newspaper
1993
Arnhem Land, Gove, Gove Case, Marika, Roy, Whitlam, Gough, Yirrkala
Land Bilong Islanders & Gove
Video
 
bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, Land Bilong Islanders, Marika, Roy, McIntyre, Greg, Nabalco, Northern Territory, Supreme Court USA, Yirrkala
Pain for this land...
Video
1967-1971
Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, land ownership, Marika, Roy, McIntyre, Greg, Nabalco, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
Gove Case
Topic
1971
aborigines, Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, Gove Peninsula, McIntyre, Greg, Nabalco, Yirrkala
Gove Peninsula Land Rights Case
Image
1970
Australia, claim, Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Nabalco, Yirrkala
Special Institutions
Text
1890-1963
Arnhem Land, Gove, humanitarians, immigration, Kakadu National Park, missionaries, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, rations, religion, reserves, settlements, South Australia, supervision, The Northern Territory Land Rights Act, Victoria, Yirrkala
A model Aboriginal state
Text
1920-1927
activism, Arnhem Land, coexistence, dispossession, Gove, humanitarians, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, reserves, Yirrkala
Yirrkala
Topic
1976
Arnhem Land, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, Kakadu National Park, Marika, Roy, Northern Territory, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
...the Undersigned aboriginal people of Yirrkala...
Image and Text
1963
activism, Arnhem Land, bark petition, Beazley, Kim Snr., Blackburn, Justice, Bryant, Gordon, Gove, Hasluck, Paul, Kakadu National Park, Marika, Roy, resistance, Wells, Reverend Edgar, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
The tradition of bark painting at Yirrkala
Image and Text
 
activism, anthropology, Arnhem Land, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, culture, Gove, Gove Case, Kakadu National Park, Marika, Roy, missionaries, missions, Northern Territory, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Seagull - Yirrkala
Audio
1962
Arnhem Land, culture, Gove Case, Kakadu National Park, Northern Territory, songs, Yirrkala, Yolgnu
Yolngu leadership
Text
1962-72
Arnhem Land, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, cultural preservation, Gove Case, Kakadu National Park, Millingimbi, missionaries, missions, Wells, Reverend Edgar, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Dr. H. C. (Nugget) Coombs
Image and Text
1992
1967 referendum, Arnhem Land, Coombs, Dr. H.C. (Nugget), Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Northern land Council, Northern Territory, Yirrkala, Yolgnu, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
Public reaction to Gove decision
Text
1971
Blackburn judgement, Blackburn, Justice, crown land, First Fleet, Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , mining, Nabalco, Northern Territory, terra nullius, Yirrkala, Yolgnu
2nd Yirrkala petition
Image and Text
1971
Gove, Gove Case, land rights, McMahon, William, mining, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
Justice A.E.Woodward
Image and Text
1973-1974
Central Land Council, Central Land Council, land rights, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , Nabalco, Northern land Council, Northern Territory, Whitlam, Gough, Woodward, Justice A.E., Yirrkala, Yolgnu
Whitlam's Gurindji Speech
Text
1975
Central Land Council, Coombs, Dr. H.C. (Nugget), Gurindji, land rights, Nabalco, Northern land Council, Northern Territory, Wave Hill, Whitlam, Gough, Yirrkala, Yolgnu
...Territory practically unoccupied...
Text
1889-1991
Australian Court Case, Blackburn, Justice, Cooper V Stuart, doctrine of tenure, Federal Court of Australia, Gove Case, Mabo v Queensland No.2, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , mining, Nabalco, Nettheim, Garth, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Privy Council, terra nullius, Yirrkala, Yolgnu
The Gove Case
Topic
1967-1972
Arnhem Land, Australian Court Case, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Marika, Roy, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , mining, Nabalco, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
The Gove Decision Questioned
Topic
1971
Arnhem Land, Australian Court Case, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, Canada, Gove, Gove Case, land rights, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , mining, Nabalco, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
Aboriginal land rights plea is turned down
Newspaper
1972
Australian Court Case, Coombs, Dr. H.C. (Nugget), Gove, Gove Case, land rights, McMahon, William, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , Nabalco, Yirrkala
Yirrkala Bark Petition
Image
1976
Arnhem Land, Australian Court Case, bark petition, Blackburn, Justice, Canberra, Gove, Gove Case, Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, 1971 , Roberts, Silas, Yirrkala, Yunupingu, Galarrwuy
McMahon meets delegation from Yirrkala
Image
1971
Arnhem Land, Blackburn, Justice, Gove, Gove Case, McMahon, William, Northern Territory, Yirrkala
Gove Peninsula People At Court
Image
1970
Arnhem Land, bark petition, Gove, Gove Case, Northern Territory, Yirrkala