“Treaty (Filthy Lucre Radio Remix)” by Yothu Yindi

"Treaty" was Yothu Yindi's 1991 protest song, from an Australian group that brought Aboriginal and balanda, or non-Aboriginal, members together, and it arrived three years after the Barunga Statement had been presented to Prime Minister Bob Hawke. Brothers Mandawauy and Galarrwuy Yunupingu wanted to call out how little progress had been made on a treaty between Indigenous Australians and the government, and part of the lyric is in Gumatj, a Yolngu Matha dialect of Arnhem Land in the country's north.

The original didn't chart on its February 1991 release. A remix that May changed everything, making it the first Australian chart hit for a mostly Aboriginal band; it reached 11 on the ARIA chart and went to No. 6 on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart. APRA later put it on its list of the Top 30 Australian songs ever.

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