Kenisha Gumbula, single mum from Arnhem Land, set to become first Yolngu lawyer

Growing up on remote Elcho Island, off the coast of Arnhem Land, Kenisha Gurala Gumbula says it never occurred to her younger self to think of studying law.

She saw others in the region’s Yolngu-speaking communities working hard in schools and health clinics, but not inside the courtroom as a lawyer.

“I didn’t think about studying law. I always thought law was hard,” she said. 

But after…