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Mandawuy Yunupingu of the Gumatj clan from North East Arnhem Land was pronounced Australian of the Year for 1992 for his accomplishments in the national and international arenas. Mandawuy is the leader of the group [|Yothu Yindi], hailed by Billboard Magazine as the flagship of Australian music. He is one of his country's fore most cultural ambassadors. His band swept the awards of the Australian music industry and played at the United Nations to innaugurate the Year of Indigenous Peoples in 1993. Their second Album, last years Tribal Voice (1993), went double Platinum in Australia; the band is now poised to launch their fourth tour to America in April (1994).

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 * ^  ||  Mandaway Yunupingu was born in the Northern Territory in 1956. He was the first Aboriginal to become a principal of a school in Australia, at Yirrkala in the Northern Territory. While he was principal, he made sure that lessons with both Aboriginal and European ideas were included. ||
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 * ^  ||  Mandawuy Yunupingu was born in 1956 near the remote north-east Arnhem Land community of Yirrkala, 600 kilometres east of Darwin in Australia's Northern Territory. At this time Yirrkala was controlled by the Methodist Missionary Society.

His surname, Yunupingu, means "rock that will stand against anything". Originally known as Bakamana, he took the name Mandawuy (meaning "clay") in 1989 following the death of a man who shared his former name. (Under Yolngu law, the name of a dead person cannot be uttered until that person's spirit has passed on to its rightful place). || [] || Chronological reference to people and experiences that influenced the person explaining how they influenced them. ||  Mandawuy Yunupingu comes from a politically active family. His father was a signatory to the bark petition presented to the federal parliament in 1963. It was that petition that led to the historic Gove Land Rights case and ultimately to the implementation of the Land Rights Act (NT) 1976. Mandawuy's older brother, Galarrwuy Yunupingu AM, is now serving his fifth term as chairman of the influential Northern Land Council. Mandawuy Yunupingu comes from a politically active family. His father was a signatory to the bark petition presented to the federal parliament in 1963. It was that petition that led to the historic Gove Land Rights case and ultimately to the implementation of the Land Rights Act (NT) 1976. Mandawuy's older brother, Galarrwuy Yunupingu AM, is now serving his fifth term as chairman of the influential Northern Land Council. || [] || My father's name was Mangurrawut Yunupingu and he was the tribal leader of the Gumatj people of Yirrkala. He was an artist, he was a powerful leader in politics, he was a singer and dancer and an artist.
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My mother was a very big influence in my educational side of things. She was able to see the future – the transition from traditional upbringing to embracing the Western side of education. All the things that I was able to learn from my father and my mother made me confident in how I should reach the world and how we should display Aboriginal culture to the world. || In 1974, I finished my schooling here in the Yirrkala school and then flew over to Darwin and did my first year of teacher training at Batchelor College. I had to go back and do my additional training in 1986, through Deakin University. That then gave me entitlement for promotion. That's how I became a principal. LEON WHITE, PRINCIPAL, YIRRKALA COMMUNITY SCHOOL: Mandawuy was growing up in Yirrkala when I first met him back in the '70s. He became the principal here in 1987. In terms of Mandawuy's appointment being a milestone in NT education, it definitely was. I think more importantly than him becoming the principal was the ideas that he put on the agenda. He was part of a group of people who made a major contribution here to conceptualising how Indigenous education ought to work in terms of the notion of 'both ways' education. Getting a balance between ideas that come from whitefellas and ideas that come from Yolngu. || [] ||
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In 1987, Mandawuy Yunupingu became the first Aboriginal person from Arnhem Land to gain a university degree, taking a Bachelor of Arts (Education) from Deakin University. || [] || MANDAWUY YUNUPINGU: I come from north-east Arnhem Land, a place called Gove. Nhulunbuy. Grew up in a place called Yirrkala, where I was born and educated. My clan is called Gumatj. We speak the Dhuwa language, which is one of the 16 language-speaking clan groups that live here. We've lived here for many, many thousands of years and basically, we're the biggest family group that lives here. || [] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> //"My strongest memory of growing up is following my Mother. Looking at her, watching her, observing her activities. It was important for her to give me that skill, whether it be hunting, finding the right vine for the right yam, or finding the right tree for the right fruit. Important for survival. She'd tell me things at night, bedtime stories around the campfire. Very important message stories that had meanings. They told you how to behave, how to respect that elder, respect that community leader. I have vivid memories of her giving me information, communication, giving me the freedom to think the way I think is the right way."// || [] || In 1986 he began the band, //Yothu Yindi//. The band sang songs explaining the problems of Aboriginal life. Yunupingu hopes that the music will improve life for Aboriginal people by improving the way other Australians see them. He has worked hard to have Aboriginal people and other Australians work together and to be more friendly towards each other. In 1992, he was made Australian of the Year for his work in improving understanding between Australians. || [] || [] || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Well known persons working at the same time. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> Mandawuy collaborated with Paul Kelly and Peter Garrett to write 'Treaty', a hit single that crashed into the top twenty charts. It was a song written about reconciliation, sparked by the former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, about negotiating a treaty between the descendants of Aboriginal people who had lived in Australia for 40,000 years and the non-Aboriginal people who had lived here since 1788. || Lead songwriter, keyboardist & guitarist of [|INXS]. He and [|Michael Hutchence] penned nearly all the bands hits, and this was a point of friction between them and the other band members, as royalties went to Farriss and Hutchence, making them wealthier than the other band members. Has written songs for Yothu Yindi. As with all the members of INXS, he has always maintained a busy pace with projects outside the band. As a songwriter and producer he has performed on countless awarding winning projects and with a diverse range of artists. The Farriss Brothers formed in 1977 and 20 years later remained unchanged in their line-up as INXS - a definite rarity in the music industry. He is the second eldest of four children. He is the composer of 90% of the music that INXS structure, both album cuts and singles' b-sides. He also plays keyboards, harmonica, guitar and percussion. Historically, he has spent hours on the road in hotel rooms creating sounds on a small cassette player and cataloging them for later use when composing music for INXS. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Why do their life is regarded as significant and why they are admirable. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">
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In 1991 Yothu Yindi achieved international recognition with their single //Treaty//, which spent twenty-two weeks in the national charts and won numerous awards. Due to the popularity and touring schedule of the band Yunupingu had to resign from his position as principal of the Yirrkala school. From the 1990s, Yothu Yindi released numerous award-winning albums and regularly toured both nationally and internationally. One of Australia's most prominent spokesmen on indigenous issues, Yunupingu was recognised for his work in bringing indigenous and western cultures together. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;">Establishes when and where the person died and the effect their work and values had on people. || <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 7pt; line-height: 115%;"> || [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] ||
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