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$1.8 million compo: that’s Yirrkala kava karma

Crikey / Monday, 27 August 2007

The Yolngu people of Yirrkala, the largest Aboriginal town in north east Arnhem Land, have always had an ambivalent experience with missionaries. Then again, it was the missionaries—or at least a bunch of lay workers from the south Pacific—that brought in kava.