{"id":856909,"date":"2026-08-16T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856909\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T04:30:11","slug":"the-pintupi-nine-becomes-three-with-death-of-kumantjayi-walala-tjapaltjarri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/856909\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pintupi Nine becomes three with death of Kumantjayi (Walala) Tjapaltjarri"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aug 16, 2026 \u2013 12.29pm<\/p>\n<p>Nineteen eighty-four was a momentous year for Australia. The dollar had just been floated, the banks were deregulated, Medicare came into being, Bob Hawke called an early election and a jar of Vegemite became the first product to be electronically scanned at an Australian supermarket.<\/p>\n<p>And then, in October of that year, an Indigenous family of nine \u2013 two mothers with seven children (the women\u2019s husband, the father of the seven children, had died) \u2013 walked out of the Gibson Desert in Western Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 16, 2026 \u2013 12.29pm Nineteen eighty-four was a momentous year for Australia. The dollar had just been&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-856909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=856909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}