Tag Archives: Yirrkala

Helen Hughes and the death of fun at school

Last Friday Helen and Mark Hughes put their names to an opinion piece in The Australian entitled Authorities must not wag school.

In short the arguments that the Hughes’ make are that Federal, State and Territory governments abandon their responsibilities to students – particularly remote Aboriginal students – by the stealthy foreshortening of school terms and [...]

Mandawuy Yunupingu – Australian Story, Monday 19 October

From the dim recesses of memory I recall that Mandawuy turned up one night while we were on tour in Sydney with an old battered guitar, a swag of great songs and a keen desire to get them heard by as many people as possible.