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MOM received a government subsidy to run the mission, and school classes operated from 1936, at first outdoors under a tree, and later beneath the Mission House. In 1951, a new school building was built, and, by 1952, it had 47 children regularly attending classes there, taught by a Miss Proctor. She
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Mission superintendents included founding superintendent Wilbur Chaseling, Harold Thornell, and Edgar Wells, who wrote about their experiences there. The residents were free to come and go as they wished, and the interaction was on the whole positive in those early days, with a lack of dogmatism by
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As of 2015 it represented more than 300 artists from around the homelands, and exhibitions of work by the artists were being shown across Australia and internationally. As of 2020, the centre comprises two divisions: the Yirrkala Art Centre, which represents the artists exhibiting and selling
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At Yirrkala School, formerly Yirrkala Community School, renamed "Yirrkala Community Education Centre" or "Yirrkala CEC" after it became a location of one of the trial Community Education Centres (CEC) in 1988, students undertake a method of
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She retired in early 2023 after 40 years at the school, with family, friends, colleagues and other community members gathering to celebrate her contribution. Since retirement, she has been teaching traditional healing with
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went ahead as planned, it alerted non-Indigenous Australians to the need for Indigenous representation in such decisions, and it prompted a government report recommending compensation payments, protection of
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in 1998. This was despite the fact that Yirrkala School had been identified as the first to undergo bilingual accreditation in 1980, and bilingual students outperformed the non-bilingual students.
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Yunupingu was appointed senior teacher at the school in 2004, and has often been called "mother of the school", and became known for her mentoring of other teachers. She was awarded the
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is the local government for Yirrkala, which is in the council's Gumurr Miwatj Ward. It consults with Yirrkala Mala Leaders Association, consisting of 12 elected community members.
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There is a stage called the Roy Marika Stage at the centre, which is used for the annual Yarrapay Festival. The festival's June 2021 iteration was directed by
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to scrutinise developments at Yirrkala, and also acknowledgments of the Indigenous people's moral right to their lands. The Bark Petition is on display in the
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Around 1974, control of the mission was passed to the Yirrkala Dhanbul Community Association, and it was no longer was operated as a mission thereafter.
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order to teach English for the first four hours each day, the school continued to teach in its own way, with the child's first language,
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The centre was established by local artists in the old Mission health centre in 1976, after the missionaries had left and as the
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for three years. The mission received child endowment for every Aboriginal child there, regardless of attendance at the school.
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dubbed "both ways", incorporating a cultural curriculum called Galtha Rom, meaning cultural lessons. Despite a 2009
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community at Yirrkala throughout recorded history, but the community increased enormously in size when Yirrkala
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by other means. The school did not operate during this time, and all "white women" were evacuated in 1942.
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the missionaries, and the Yolngu people accommodating Christianity within a version of their own beliefs.
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was founded in 1935, with people from 13 different Yolngu clans moving to Yirrkala. Around this time, the
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designs. They were discarded by the church in 1974, but were salvaged by Buku-Larrnggay in 1978.
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to protest the Prime Minister's announcement that a parcel of their land was to be sold to a
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Printmaking by Yolngu artists of Northeast Arnhem Land: 'Another way of telling our stories'
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Parliament of Australia. House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs;
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On 25 January 2024 she was announced as 2024 Senior Australian of the Year and travelled to
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mining company. Although the petition itself was unsuccessful in the sense that the
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pilots and engineers based in Arnhem Land, providing air transport services. At the
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Yirrkala is home to a number of leading Indigenous artists, whose traditional
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Yirrkala played a pivotal role in the development of the relationship between
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airbase operated close by. Many mission residents worked there, as
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culture, in particular the Yolngu people who lived in East Arnhem.
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policies which dictated that NT schools should teach only in the
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The centre has been a base for several major artists, including
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and the sister of artist, cultural leader and environmentalist
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was not a trained teacher, but had worked at the mission on
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Inquiry into the Aboriginal homelands movement in Australia
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Yirrkala has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
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of north-east Arnhem Land, and is the daughter of artist
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based there. It is often referred to as Buku for short.
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National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
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A woodcarving of female spirit collected at Yirrkala
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Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976
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to the community, responsible for matters under the
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Created: 7 February 2011, Last modified: 8 May 2014
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Australian Government Publishing Service. 1108: 1106: 1080: 1292: 422: 257:people, and it is also home to a number of 118: 2118: 2104: 1917: 1805: 1803: 1791:Nambara Schools Council Submission to the 1725:"Bark Ladies to open at NGV International" 1450:"Bark Ladies centres female Yolŋu artists" 1081:George, Gary; George, Karen (8 May 2014). 1060: 1032: 760: 579:, and featured the Andrew Gurruwiwi Band, 2082: 1894: 1892: 1166: 1103: 857:One of the Wurrwurrwuy stone arrangements 799:She has translated children's books into 16:Town in the Northern Territory, Australia 2005: 2003: 1961: 852: 502: 490: 446: 395:, creation of a permanent parliamentary 210: 2083:Salvestro, Denise Yvonne (April 2016). 1809: 1800: 1781:(Report). Nambara Schools Council. 1999 1526: 1524: 1443: 1441: 249:Its population comprises predominantly 2248: 1987: 1889: 1475: 1360:. National Museum of Australia. 2013. 1269: 1267: 1112: 2099: 2034: 2000: 1928: 1768: 1751:"Yirrkala Community Education Centre" 1554: 1552: 1447: 1239: 1200:– via Parliament of Australia. 1076: 1074: 1072: 1070: 542:It is also a traditional home of the 1866: 1521: 1502:Rirratjingu Aboriginal Corporation. 1469: 1448:Perin, Victoria (13 December 2021). 1438: 1251:Miwatj Health Aboriginal Corporation 1148:"Yirrkala bark petitions 1963 (Cth)" 904:(1988–), Australian rules footballer 892:(1985-), Australian rules footballer 848: 410: 1939:Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1867:Gore, Charlotte (25 January 2024). 1841:"Yalangbara: art of the Djang'kawu" 1820:Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1476:Kubler, Alison (19 February 2022). 1424:Australian Broadcasting Corporation 1264: 641:, who painted the other sheet with 354:Aboriginal land rights in Australia 13: 2126:Localities and communities of the 2063: 1988:Devlin, Brian (12 November 2020). 1795:Rural and Remote Education Inquiry 1705:from the original on 15 March 2024 1549: 1067: 987:(1956–2013), musician and educator 934:(1925–1993), councillor and artist 568:, with well-known artists such as 14: 2277: 1962:Kennelly, Shane (2 August 2023). 1929:James, Felicity (20 March 2023). 1614:"Buku-Larrnggay Mulka (Yirrkala)" 1020:Australian Census 2021 QuickStats 886:, businessman and cultural leader 871: 427:Yirrkala is a small community in 164:1,037 km (644 mi) E of 158:723 km (449 mi) ENE of 1154:. 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Index

Yirrkala (fish)
Northern Territory
Yirrkala is located in Northern Territory
Coordinates
12°15′10″S 136°53′30″E / 12.25278°S 136.89167°E / -12.25278; 136.89167
2021
Postcode(s)
Nhulunbuy
Katherine
Darwin
LGA(s)
East Arnhem Region
Territory electorate(s)
Mulka
Federal division(s)
Lingiari

bark painting
East Arnhem Region
Northern Territory
Nhulunbuy
Gove Peninsula
Arnhem Land
Aboriginal Australians
Yolngu
Mission Aviation Fellowship
2021 census
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people
Aboriginal
mission

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