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No celebration is complete without cake,
and the event on-Country at the Murchison Settlement
to commemorate the signing of the Indigenous Land Use Agreement (ILUA)
was no exception!
During the event, the Wajarri Yamaji announced the gift of a traditional
name for the expanded observatory site.
The Wajarri name, which means sharing the sky and stars, is part of a
new dual, official name for the site:
Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the
CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory.
The traditional name was suggested by Wajarri woman Shakira Whitehurst
for a competition run by the Wajarri Yamaji Aboriginal Corporation
(WYAC) and selected by members of the Wajarri Minangu Land Committee,
the Traditional Owners of the observatory area on Wajarri Country.
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