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Treaty

Treaty
1991
(Paul Kelly, Mandawuy Yunupingu, Stuart Kellaway, Cal Williams, Gurrumul Yunupingu, Milkayngu Mununggurr, Banula Marika, Peter Garrett)

"Treaty" is a song by Australian indigenous
music band Yothu Yindi, which is made up of Aboriginal and balanda (non-Aboriginal) members.
"Treaty" was the first song by a predominately-Aboriginal band to chart in Australia and was the first song in any Aboriginal Australian language (Yolngu-Matha) to gain extensive international recognition, peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play singles charts.
In 1988, as part of Bicentennial celebrations, Prime Minister of Australia, Bob Hawke, visited the Northern Territory for the Barunga festival where he was presented with a statement of Aboriginal political objectives byGalarrwuy Yunupingu and Wenten Rubuntja. Hawke responded to the Barunga Statement with a promise that a treaty would be concluded with Indigenous Australians by 1990.
Well I heard it on the radio
(Continues)
Contributed by Dq82 2017/9/30 - 14:34
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From Little Things Big Things Grow

From Little Things Big Things Grow
[1991]
Album "Comedy", con la formazione "Paul Kelly & The Messengers"
Scritta da Paul Kelly con Kev Carmody
Incisa anche da Carmody nel suo album del 1993 intitolato "Bloodlines"

La canzone parla del lungo periodo di scioperi, iniziato nel 1966, che in Australia vide protagonisti gli aborigeni dell'etnia Gurindji - guidati dal leader Vincent Lingiari - contro la società Vestey che a Kalkaringi (poi Wave Hill), sulle terre dei nativi, aveva insediato un'azienda di allevamento dove i proprietari originari, esautorati da ogni diritto sulla terra, venivano sfruttati come veri e propri schiavi e tenuti in condizioni di vita disumane...
La lotta dei Gurindji portò qualche anno dopo all'approvazione dell'Aboriginal Land Rights Act (1976).
Gather round people I'll tell you a story
(Continues)
Contributed by Alessandro 2009/10/5 - 11:12




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