Declining Health
Yunupingu has suffered from chronic alcoholism, which in turn has contributed to advanced renal failure. He now receives haemodialysis three times a week in Darwin.
He has also participated in traditional healing practices. His sister Gulumbu is one of a group of senior Yolngu women who have set up a healing place with the support of the Yothu Yindi Foundation. Yunupingu has been one of its first patients.
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