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National NAIDOC Awards recipients announced for 2021

NIT 01 Dec 2021

National NAIDOC Committee Co-Chair, Shannan Dodson said this year’s winners serve as role models for all Australians ... Tamwoy is of the Putch people, Wik Mungkan, in the community of Aurukun located in the western Cape York Peninsula. She is also the co‐founder of the Wik Women’s Group which champions for education and safety of women and children.

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Stig Abell on... swearing

The Times/The Sunday Times 28 Mar 2021

Take the Wik Mungkan people, the Aboriginal natives of Cape York Peninsula, whose rude words go from harmless teasing (“long nose” or “skinny arms”) to outright insult ... .

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Sly grog targeted as Aurukun families are told it's safe to return

Yahoo Daily News 15 Jan 2020

Twelve people have been charged with arson ... Related ... It has appointed a mediator, the former Aurukun shire council chief executive Gary Kleinen, to manage community tensions while Bruce Martin, a Wik Mungkan man and former member of the prime minister’s Indigenous Advisory Council, will work with elders and coordinate government agencies ... .

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Huge Crocodile Caught on Camera Eating Pet Dog Alive: 'Oh No Benny!'

Newsweek 29 Oct 2019

A large crocodile has been caught on camera eating a pet dog alive as it was wading in the Watson River in a remote region of Queensland, Australia ... The video, taken by the owner, was published by the local Indigenous Knowledge Centre, 9News reported ... The group runs a project to promote Wik Mungkan, still the predominant language in Aurukun ... News . .

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Review: My Country, I Still Call Australia Home: Contemporary Art from Black Australia

The Guardian 06 Jun 2013

Sorry. Tony Gilbert's installation needs no interpretation Photograph. Mark Sherwood/GoMA ... Flying Fox Story Place ... GoMA ... Pambegan Jr, a senior member of the Winchanam ceremonial group and the Wik-Mungkan people in Queensland, who died in 2010, used the installation to convey customary laws and beliefs related to initiation rituals ... I Forgive You ... .

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Patterns of attachment to the land

The Australian 29 May 2013

IN recent years, a "welcome to country" has become a standard protocol observed at public events to begin procedures by formally recognising the custodians of the land where the event is held ... Wik-Mungkan artist Arthur Koo-ekka Pambegan Jr was a member of the Winchanam ceremonial group ... "Carry it on, so the story will never die ...  . .

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Reconciliation Is Not PR

New Matilda 29 May 2012

It’s another milestone in the history of Aboriginal land rights ... It’s disappointing that on such a momentous occasion that means so much to the Wik Mungkan people who have fought for so long, Newman couldn’t even acknowledge his predecessor’s role in the handover ... Today we are here to put that right" ... .

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Cape York land agreement makes history

Australian Broadcasting Corporation 22 May 2012

The Wik Mungkan people have been given rights over land on the Cape York peninsula after a near 40-year struggle ... The Wik Mungkan people on Cape York Peninsula have been given their land after a struggle lasting 40 years, that became a test case for Federal anti-discrimination laws.

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Indigenous owners get historic handover

Sydney Morning Herald 21 May 2012

... attend a ceremonial transfer of the Mungkan Kandju National Park and large areas of freehold land to the Wik Mungkan people.

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Aurukun mayor dies suddenly

Canberra Times 23 Apr 2012

He was 51 ... "He made a distinguished contribution to the cause of his people, the Wik people up on Cape York," Mr Newman told reporters in Brisbane ... He was first elected mayor in 2004 ... "I want to see the day when young Wik people are living and working in Beijing, and on the Blackberry phone talking to their grandfather in Wik Mungkan telling him ... AAP . .

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Endangered languages: the full list

The Guardian 15 Apr 2011

Regis) 3000 Definitely endangered Nanay 3000 Severely endangered Palu'e 3000 Definitely endangered Panare 3000 Vulnerable Pilagá 3000 Vulnerable Pitjantjatjara 3000 Vulnerable Pukur 3000 Definitely endangered Rotuman 3000 Vulnerable Savi 3000 Definitely endangered Sherdukpen 3000 ...

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Endangered languages : the full list

The Guardian 15 Apr 2011

Regis) 3000 Definitely endangered Nanay 3000 Severely endangered Palu'e 3000 Definitely endangered Panare 3000 Vulnerable PilagÃ¡ 3000 Vulnerable Pitjantjatjara 3000 Vulnerable Pukur 3000 Definitely endangered Rotuman 3000 Vulnerable Savi 3000 Definitely endangered Sherdukpen ...

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Australia returns 185,000 acres to Aborigines

MSNBC 06 Oct 2010

Queensland Premier Anna Bligh told state parliament that more than 185,325 acres (75,000 hectares) of land in far northeast Cape York Peninsula would be returned to the Wik Mungkan people ... The area, known as Archer Bend, lies within Mungkan Kandju National Park ... Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved ... Tweet advertisement ... .