NITV Radio Full - 22/08/2025

Yolngu Elder Mayalil Marika shares bush medicine knowledge with Flinders University students, exploreing traditional healing methods, while building cultural awareness in modern practices

Eeley fruit or Yellow plum, Ximenia americana, Aboriginal bush tucker, The fruits contain medicinal properties Source: Getty / Auscape/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

On-Country in the Northern Territory's northeastern Arnhem Land region, university students are gaining experience in bush medicines and healing practices taught by Yolngu Elder Mayalil Marika.

Artist Alison Page, is a proud Yuin and Dhurrawal woman behind the work Badjgama Ngunda Whuliwulawala (Black Women Rising) a sculpture commissioned to join Sydney's Circular Quay/

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