Lugubatbat Stori
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How do you find someone who doesn t want to be found?
Rhonda Duncan remembers her father, Duncan Yanupalla, passing away in 1980, in the build up season, when everything was hot and sticky. After his passing, she learned he was not who she thought he was. It took her and her older sister Margaret over 30 years to piece together his life story.
Duncan s story unravels many secrets. As the sisters, both elders and artists from Urapunga community, travel the Territory, they uncover hidden histories. They learn about the frontier wars, the native police, the horrors of colonisation and the fight their families went through to stay on Country. Lugubatbat Stori leads Margaret and Rhonda across northern Australia, deep into libraries, museums and archives, where they encountered wartime submarines, cattlemen, a musical super star and many new family members.
Beautifully illustrated with full colour artworks and archival photographs, this book came from Margaret and Rhonda s desire to uncover the mysterious identity of their father.
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