Yuendumu

Yuendumu (22°15′S 131°47′E) is a town in the Northern Territory of Australia.[9][10] It ranks as one of the larger remote communities in central Australia and has a thriving community of Aboriginal artists. Yuendumu lies 293 km northwest of Alice Springs on the Tanami Road, and is a community largely made up of the Warlpiri and Anmatyerr Aboriginal people, with a population of 759 at the 2016 Australian census.[2] Yuendumu is located within the Yuendumu Aboriginal Lands Trust area on traditional Anmatyerr land and includes numerous outstations.[11][12]

Yuendumu
Northern Territory
Yuendumu
Coordinates22°15′32″S 131°47′33″E[1]
Population759 (2016 census)[2]
 • Density108/km2 (281/sq mi)
Established1946 (Yendumu Aboriginal Reserve)
4 April 2007 (locality)[1]
Postcode(s)0872[3]
Elevation667 m (2,188 ft)(weather station)[4]
Area7 km2 (2.7 sq mi)
Time zoneACST (UTC+9:30)
Location
LGA(s)Central Desert Region[1]
Territory electorate(s)Gwoja[5]
Federal Division(s)Lingiari[6]
Mean max temp[4] Mean min temp[4] Annual rainfall[4]
30.3 °C
87 °F		 15.4 °C
60 °F		 365.2 mm
14.4 in
Localities around Yuendumu:
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Chilla Well Yuendumu Chilla Well
Chilla Well Chilla Well Chilla Well
FootnotesLocations[3]
Adjoining locality[7][8]

It was established in 1946 by the Native Affairs Branch of the Australian Government to deliver rations and welfare services;[13] the first superintendent was Francis McGarry.[14] In 1947 the Australian Baptist Home Mission was established there.[15][16] By 1955 many of the Aboriginal people had settled in the town. Today, some of the services and facilities available in Yuendumu include three community stores, Yuendumu Mediation Centre, school,[17] airstrip, swimming pool,[18] the Warlukurlangu art centre, an Aboriginal media organisation (PAW Media), a church, an elderly people's program, women's centre and safe house. Yuendumu retains links with other communities within the region, including Yuelumu, Papunya, Lajamanu, Willowra and Nyirripi.

Yuendumu hosts its annual sports weekend in the first week of August. The event includes football, basketball and softball competitions, attracting teams from other communities around the region. There is also a 'Battle of the Bands' night which showcases local bands.

Art
Further information: Indigenous Australian art

In the early 1980s the Yuendumu elders painted ceremonial designs on canvas, which begun the art movement at Yuendumu.[19] The first painting there was on the door of the Yuendumu school (which later started the Yuendumu Doors series), painted by P. Japaljarri Stewart and Kumanjayi Japaljarri Sims, who are some of the most well-known artists at the community. In 1985 the Warlukurlangu Artists Association was founded at Yuendumu.[20] Notable artists who have painted with Warlukurlangu include Kumanjayi Nelson Napaljarri,[21] Norah Nelson Napaljarri,[22] Sheila Brown Napaljarri,[23] Dolly Nampijinpa Daniels[22] and Judy Watson Napangardi.[24]

Contemporary Indigenous Australian artist Kumanjayi Napaljarri Kennedy was a senior woman at Yuendumu,[25] a member of the community council,[26] and was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 1994, for services to the Yuendumu community.[27] Artist Maggie Napaljarri Ross has received the Order of Australia for her work in establishing the Yuendumu Night Patrol.[28]

Mt Theo Program
Main article: Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation

Yuendumu elders founded the Mt Theo Program in 1993, to divert youth from an epidemic of petrol sniffing, which has become a model for substance abuse prevention and youth diversion/development in remote Australian communities.[29] In 2007, Johnny Japangardi Miller "Hooker Creek",[30] Peggy Nampijimpa Brown[31] and Andrew Stojanovski[32] were awarded the Order of Australia Medal (OAM) for their efforts in founding the program and "for service to the community of Yuendumu and the surrounding region of the Northern Territory through programs addressing substance abuse among Indigenous youth". The program grew into a number of services, now administered by the Warlpiri Youth Development Aboriginal Corporation.[33]

Other notable people

Yuendumu leaders who were awarded the Centenary Medal in 2001, which commemorates 100 years of Federation and recognises "citizens and other people who made a contribution to Australian society or government" include Wendy Nungarrayi Brown[34] and Rex Granites.[35]

Yuendumu is the home community of Indigenous activist and former NT Government minister Bess Nungarrayi Price.

Media and sport

For over 25 years the community has also been home to Pintubi Anmatjere Warlpiri (PAW) Media, (formerly Warlpiri Media Association),[36] most famously producing Bush Mechanics,[37][38] and Aboriginal Rules,[39] which explored the social meaning of Australian rules football in remote communities.

Yuendumu is home of the Yuendumu Magpies football team,[40] who play in the Central Australian Football League (CAFL) (formerly playing in the Ngurratjuta 'Country' Cup). Yuendumu won the inaugural season of the new Alice Springs competition in 2008.[41] Yuendumu player Liam Jurrah was drafted into the AFL soon after by the Melbourne Football Club.[42]

In the arts and media

The town is mentioned in the 1987 Midnight Oil song "Beds are Burning" (from the Diesel and Dust album): Four wheels scare the cockatoos/From Kintore east to Yuendumu. Midnight Oil and Warumpi Band's 1986 tour to Yuendumu is documented in Andrew McMillan's book Strict Rules: The BlackfellaWhitefella Tour.

The 2001 TV series Bush Mechanics was located in and around Yuendumu,[43] and an exhibition and book celebrated the iconic series in 2018/2019.[44][45]

In The 2005 PlayStation 2 Video Game Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, the second chapter "Rumble Down Under" takes place in a fictional Yuendumu in the Australian outback, which is a mining and digging site.

Climate
Climate data for Yuendumu
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Record high °C (°F) 46.5
(115.7)		 43.2
(109.8)		 41.1
(106.0)		 38.5
(101.3)		 34.5
(94.1)		 30.7
(87.3)		 31.1
(88.0)		 35.2
(95.4)		 38.2
(100.8)		 41.2
(106.2)		 45.6
(114.1)		 44.6
(112.3)		 46.5
(115.7)
Average high °C (°F) 36.5
(97.7)		 35.2
(95.4)		 33.4
(92.1)		 30.1
(86.2)		 25.0
(77.0)		 22.1
(71.8)		 22.0
(71.6)		 25.1
(77.2)		 29.5
(85.1)		 32.9
(91.2)		 35.1
(95.2)		 36.2
(97.2)		 30.3
(86.5)
Average low °C (°F) 22.4
(72.3)		 22.1
(71.8)		 19.4
(66.9)		 15.5
(59.9)		 11.0
(51.8)		 7.6
(45.7)		 6.4
(43.5)		 8.5
(47.3)		 13.0
(55.4)		 16.9
(62.4)		 19.7
(67.5)		 21.5
(70.7)		 15.4
(59.7)
Record low °C (°F) 13.5
(56.3)		 12.3
(54.1)		 9.3
(48.7)		 5.4
(41.7)		 0.4
(32.7)		 −1.1
(30.0)		 −2.0
(28.4)		 −1.2
(29.8)		 3.1
(37.6)		 5.9
(42.6)		 8.4
(47.1)		 12.1
(53.8)		 −2.0
(28.4)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 64.9
(2.56)		 64.8
(2.55)		 47.4
(1.87)		 22.6
(0.89)		 23.9
(0.94)		 13.6
(0.54)		 15.1
(0.59)		 7.4
(0.29)		 8.6
(0.34)		 21.0
(0.83)		 31.3
(1.23)		 45.9
(1.81)		 365.2
(14.38)
Average rainy days 6.3 6.2 3.9 2.2 2.8 2.0 1.8 1.4 2.1 4.1 5.4 6.0 44.2
Source: [4]

References
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  17. Yuendumu CEC
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  19. Tradition and Transformation
  20. Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation
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Further reading
  • Campbell, Liam (2006) Darby: One hundred years of life in a changing culture, Sydney, ABC Books.
  • Daly A and Barrett G. (2014) Independent Cost Benefit Analysis of the Yuendumu Mediation and Justice Committee Alice Springs: Central Desert Regional Council. http://www.centraldesert.nt.gov.au/files/attachments/yuendumup_cba_0.pdf
  • Dussart, Francoise (2000) The politics of ritual in an aboriginal settlement: kinship, gender, and the currency of knowledge, Washington D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press.
  • Meggitt, Mervyn J. (1962) Desert people: A study of the Walpiri Aborigines of Central Australia, Angus & Robertson, London.
  • Musharbash, Yasmine (2008) Yuendumu everyday: intimacy, immediacy and mobility in a remote Aboriginal settlement, Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press
  • Musharbash, Yasmine (2002) "Yuendumu CDEP: The Warlpiri work ethic and Kardiya staff turnover", pp. 153 – 166 in F. Morphy and W.G. Sanders (ed), The Indigenous Welfare Economy and the CDEP Scheme Research Monograph No. 21, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University E Press
  • O'Grady, Frank (1955), Francis of Central Australia, Sydney, Wentworth Books.
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