Our creation ancestors bestowed the Country and the law to us. This is Yolŋu Country. We have always welcomed visitors from other cultures who respect our ownership, our culture and reciprocate with us.  We value these relationships, some of them stretching far back in time, and hold them close to our hearts. This sharing and trade in ideas, materials and cultures nourishes us and our Country.

Yirralka and Dhimurru have many partners and we welcome new partnerships that support and inform our ways of djäkami wäŋawu.  Like the meeting of the salt and freshwaters, the relationships can create new understandings with both Yolŋu and ŋapaki knowledges standing eye to eye.

We hope we can extend our relationships as agencies with statutory and legislative responsibilities are able to fulfil their obligations in full. This will be a great help to us as we are confronted with greater expectation and limited resources.

We look to co-design new partnerships that promote Yolŋu rights and interests, ensuring benefits flow both ways – bala ga lili. We seek partners willing to increase their awareness of our culture and understanding of their own cultural assumptions so together we can leach any poison from our collaborations.  Through applying our Djäkami Work Protocols we will ensure the right people and processes are followed, that all participants are kept culturally safe and that Yolŋu are leading with our partners by our sides.