Text announces major new work from Stella Prize–winning author Clare Wright

Wright’s Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions tells the engrossing story of the land rights protest launched by the Yolngu community on Arnhem Land in 1963. Yolngu clan leaders worked with white allies on an unprecedented political strategy to protect their land from government-authorised incursion by a French mining company. Their efforts culminated in the presentation of four Bark Petitions to Federal Parliament—a key moment in the formation of a uniquely Indigenous engagement with Australian politics.

Naku Dharuk concludes Wright’s Democracy Trilogy, which began with the Stella Prize–winning The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka [worker’s rights] and continued with You Daughters of Freedom [women’s rights]. Based on ten years of research and consultation with the Yolngu community, Wright gives us the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the people who made it.

Publishing in trade paperback on 1 October, Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions will be supported by a high impact media and marketing campaign, and a national author tour.

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