1. Bark Petition
1963

2. The Yirrkala bark petitions 1963 are historic Australian documents that were the first traditional documents made by Indigenous Australians . They were the first documentary recognition of Indigenous people in Australian law.
Summary of proposed actions - How are we trying to achieve it?
There will be an emphasis on Australia’s Indigenous culture(s) and then on first peoples from around the globe. In the initial stages (our project for 2011) we are planning to explicitly involve students in a global classroom where they will interact with people who are of the first people of their nations – first within Australia. The communities that will be involved are Wathaurong (Victoria), Ltyentye Apurte (NT) and Willuna (WA) and then with other First Nation people from Canada (Toronto) and New Zealand (Auckland).
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3. The petition was a protest against the Commonwealth granting the mining rights to Nabalco of over 390 square kilometres of land over the Arnhem Land reserve.

4. The result was a parliamentary inquiry which recommended that land was owed to the Yolngu people. This meant they were given back their traditional hunting, foraging and religious land.