N^ku Dh^ruk
The greatest civilization will find a way to look outside itself and recognize in difference something that improves the world mind, the world capacity. Sadly that is not Australia.
This short paper of 1000 words is a response to reading Clare Wright's excellent new book N^ku Dh^ruk The Bark Petitions How the people of Yirrkala changed the course of Australian democracy,Text Publishing, Melbourne, Australia
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The failure to display characters in the title N^ku Dh^ruk is not a mistake. The undisplayed characters are left to illustrate the incapacity and inadequacy of our own mainstream writing and recording process. The act of writing things down is in itself a distortion.
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