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Yugul Mangi Community Government Council is the Local Government authority responsible for the administration and management of some 12,000 square kilometres in southeast Arnhem Land.

Located at Ngukurr, the Council has direct responsibility for provision of services to some 2500 people, in the Council Wards of Ngukurr, Warliburru and Yupungalla.

Yugul Mangi is a name which encompasses the peoples belonging to seven indigenous language groups of the lower Roper River/Gulf of Carpentaria region of South East Arnhem Land. The language groups identify as Mara, Ngandi, Alawa, Nunggubuyu, Rittarrngu, Wandarang and Ngalakan. Each language group consists of discrete clans, each having it’s own totems, land and related ceremonial responsibilities.

The people who comprise Yugul Mangi have a common colonial history inasmuch that Ngukurr was a missionary controlled residential centre from 1906 onwards.

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