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Friday essay: 60 years old, the Yirrkala Bark Petitions are one of our founding documents – so why don’t we know more about them?
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article here. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains names of deceased people. It would be interesting to learn who thought up this gimmick. On August 16 1963, Cecil Lambert, the Secretary of the Commonwealth Department…