Word: yunupingu
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...cyclone watch at Gunyungarra, Gulumbu Yunupingu speaks gently into her mobile phone: "We're waiting on Cyclone Monica. Coming this way." It's late April in Northeast Arnhem Land, in Australia's Top End, and until the rains came, Yunupingu, an expert in art and bush medicine, had been foraging for yam. Now, as well as the category five storm to worry about, there's her exhibition debut in Paris looming on the horizon, and the mother of four has returned to her community near Yirrkala to paint. As it transpires, over the course of the next few days Monica...
...Aborigines remain skeptical of Hawke's proposal. A treaty will take more than a year to complete, if one can be put together at all. By then the bicentennial, the Aborigines' best opportunity to be heard, will be over. Says Rights Activist Galarrwuy Yunupingu: "We will not be satisfied with a few hurried crumbs while white Australians get the rest of the birthday cake." That is one warning Hawke cannot ignore if he wants to be the host of a successful party...