“Treaty (Radio Mix)” by Yothu Yindi

Yothu Yindi, a band of Aboriginal and balanda (non-Aboriginal) members, released "Treaty" in February 1991 as a protest song. Brothers Mandawauy and Galarrwuy Yunupingu wanted to call out how little had moved on a treaty between Indigenous Australians and the government, three years after the Barunga Statement was presented to Prime Minister Bob Hawke. Part of the lyric is in Gumatj, one of the Yolngu Matha dialects, the language of the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land in Australia's north.

Only a remix, that May, got it moving. It became the first song by a mostly Aboriginal band to chart at home, reaching 11 on the ARIA chart, and the first partly in an Aboriginal language to break internationally, climbing to six on Billboard's Dance Club Play chart. APRA later named it among the Top 30 Australian songs of all time, and it entered the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2009.

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