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Yolngu leaders Gallarwuy Yunupingu and Silas Roberts

Yolngu leaders Gallarwuy Yunupingu (left) and Silas Roberts at Parliament House in 1977 with Jeremy Long and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Ian Viner (right), looking at the two bark petitions presented to the House of Representatives in 1963. These petitions are displayed in the glass case with a 1968 petition and message stick, also presented by the people of Yirrkala in the Northern Territory.