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Land rights champion farewelled in NT

ABORIGINAL land rights champion Mr Wunungmurra will be farewelled at a state funeral.

HE was one of the last surviving signatories of 1963's historic Yirrkala bark petitions and on Friday Aboriginal land rights champion Mr Wunungmurra will be farewelled at a state funeral.

ONLY a teenager when he signed the petitions, he went on to serve two terms as chairman of the Northern Land Council, standing down in 2013.

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