Boffins Books is proud to be the bookseller at the launch of Clare Wright OAM's latest book, Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions: How the People of Yirrkala Changed the Course of Australian Democracy.
The book will be launched on the night by The Honourable Mr Kim Beazley along with an in-conversation with Prof Jane Lydon with the two discussing Clare's book that has already been described as 'A masterpiece' (Thomas Mayo).
Join us for wine, snacks, and great chat.
About Naku Dharuk The Bark Petitions
In 1963—a year of agitation for civil rights worldwide—the Yolŋu of northeast Arnhem Land created the Yirrkala Bark Petitions: Näku Dhäruk. ‘The land grew a tongue’ and the land-rights movement was born.
Näku Dhäruk is the story of a founding document in Australian democracy and the trailblazers who made it. It is also a pulsating picture of the ancient and enduring culture of Australia’s first peoples.
And it is a masterful, groundbreaking history.
About Clare
Professor Clare Wright OAM is an award-winning historian, author, broadcaster and public commentator. She is the author of four works of history, including the best-selling The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka and You Daughters of Freedom, which comprise the first two instalments of her Democracy Trilogy. Clare hosts the ABC Radio National history series, Shooting the Past, and co-hosts the LTU podcast Archive Fever. She is popular public speaker, panellist and interviewer and makes frequent appearances at literary festivals, in television documentaries, on radio talk shows and generally anywhere someone will pass her a microphone.
Clare will be signing copies of Naku Dharuk after the show. Books available for purchase on the night.
Can't make it? We'll happily have a copy of Clare Wright's Naku Dharuk signed for you. Simply contact us by phone, email, online or visit us in-store and we'll take care of the rest.
