Visionary land rights pioneer Yunupingu is being remembered by his people as “a giant of the nation” as they mourn his death in northeast Arnhem Land.
Surrounded by his family and ceremonial adornments, Yunupingu, 74, died peacefully at his home in northeast Arnhem Land on Monday morning, the Youth Yindi Foundation confirmed.
“A giant of the nation whose contribution to public life spanned seven decades, he was first and foremost a leader of his people, whose welfare was his most pressing concern and responsibility,” the Youth Yindi Foundation he chaired said in a statement.
Yunupingu was born on June 30, 1948, in Gunyangara, on the northern tip of the Gulf of Carpentaria in the Northern Territory….