'Mr Wali Wunungmurra is a senior elder of the Dhalwangu Clan from North East Arnhem Land [Northern Territory]. Mr Wunungmurra is the sixth Chairman of the Northern Land Council and he lives in Yarrkala and on his Homeland. Born and educated at Yirrkala, Mr Wunungmurra studied in Brisbane [Queensland] before returning home to assist the Yolngu Clans during the historic Gove Land Rights case in 1971. Mr Wunungmurra has a long history in the struggle for land rights. He is a signatory of the Yirrkala bark petition, one of the earliest claims to land rights in Australia, presented to the Australian Parliament in 1963.'
Source: www.nalwt.gov.au (Sighted 22/11/2011)
