Garma Festival
Political leaders have been warned their attendance at one of Australia's largest cultural festivals is not enough to make progress for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The National Native Title Council has welcomed the Federal Government's $75 million investment in Traditional Owner organisations to manage native title rights.
As Garma Festival continues in northeast Arnhem Land, it is once again the stage for big promises about the future of First Nations people in this country.
Independent Victorian senator Lidia Thorpe has slammed Anthony Albanese's "annual excursion to Garma" as having become "an exercise in optics, an attempt to Blackwash the Labor Party".
The Coalition of Peaks has heralded their joint announcement, with the Prime Minister and the First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance, of a new agreement establish a First Nations Economic Partner...
While some welcome the prime minister's focus on economic empowerment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, others brand it a further step from truth-telling.
The Northern Territory's controversial youth crime laws are in the spotlight at a major Indigenous cultural festival. Engagement with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people was a hot topic at t...
What began as a backyard barbecue and a "jam session" now attracts thousands of people to one of Australia's most remote regions each year. It has been 25 years since the annual Garma Festival's humbl...
The Yunupingu family, and people all over Australia, are today mourning the loss of senior Gumatj man and ceremonial leader, Mr B Yunupingu. A Gumatj Elder, Mr Yunupingu was the son of Mungurrawuy Yun...
A horror year for the Northern Territory, beginning with a series of curfews in Alice Springs, has ended with a record number of people behind bars, as the new CLP government continues to enact polici...
The Northern Territory intervention was "totally justified", former prime minister John Howard has declared after the territory's police commissioner apologised for the force's involvement.
The children laugh as they participate in important cultural practices across the grounds of Garma in the Northern Territory. Each evening Yolngu young people dance in the sand of the bunggul grounds...
Newly appointed Minister for Indigenous Australians, Malarndirri McCarthy, has downplayed comments made by Prime Minister Anthony Albanese where he seemingly walked away from his commitment to the Mak...