Will Stubbs was eager to impress Merrkiyawuy but couldn’t put a foot right. Then one humiliating evening, she saw the humour in his misstepsIn 1993 I was working as a young criminal lawyer for Aboriginal Legal Aid in the Northern Territory. One day I was sent to the remote community of Yirrkala in north-east Arnhem Land to pay our respects at the funeral of Roy Dadaynga Marika, “the father of land rights”.Overwhelmed by the beauty and richness of the ceremony and the shock of seeing my first... Read this story
