Yunupingu scion ready to fulfil indigenous legacy

By Michael Gordon
Updated September 20 2014 - 4:08am, first published September 19 2014 - 2:56pm
Time to come home and fill his father's shoes: Gapirri Yunupingu is set to return to the north-east Arnhem Land. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen
Time to come home and fill his father's shoes: Gapirri Yunupingu is set to return to the north-east Arnhem Land. Photo: Alex Ellinghausen

As Gapirri Collins-Yunupingu sat at the bedside of his gravely-ill and famous father, Galarrwuy, at a Darwin hospital earlier this year, the idea began to take hold. It was time to come home.

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