Rurrawiliny & Rod presented Knowledge Water at this year’s Developing Northern Australia conference. It was great to be so well received and thank you to the organisers. Rurrawiliny introduced us and outlined her family’s long history of aspirations to empowerment. Her father, Dula Ngurruwutthun, a ceremonial specialist and leader, painted park to the Barunga statement. The whale tail at the foundation of the artwork has many layers that only time can reveal. Dula was a drive

from first contact the Yolngu elders were very aware that the mixing of our cultures would happen at the interface of our languages and this

This is the first of many blogs that will explore the depths of the Knowledge Water enterprise. I draft these ideas but what are their sources? Who owns them as they flow though this author’s mind and the keyboard to you? Are they now yours? The natural resources, the means of production and intellectual property of the branding of Knowledge Water will be owned by the traditional owners. That is simple. These are legal facts. But as with many things the whole is greater than