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Garma 2026 theme - Bukmak (Everyone) - an 'expression of unity and a celebration of diversity'
The Yothu Yindi Foundation has announced the theme for the 26th annual Garma Fes...
Giovanni Torre 27 Apr 2026
NT
Wild Honey: the sweetest sound of remote Australia
Gawukawu Gurruwiwi can't remember a time when music was not part of his life. Th...
Keira Jenkins 16 Aug 2025
NT
Festival started from a broken promise looks to future
When two brothers stood on an escarpment in remote northeast Arnhem Land, they l...
Keira Jenkins 9 Aug 2025
NT
Garma leaves a mark on visitors from across the globe
The Garma Festival attracts thousands of people to one of Australia's most remot...
Keira Jenkins 4 Aug 2025
NT
Australia due for 'massive reckoning' with its history
Australia needs a "massive reckoning" with the injustices of its own colonial pa...
Keira Jenkins 4 Aug 2025
Garma organiser urges action on 'horrors in statistics'

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.

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Keira Jenkins Aug 3, 2025
National Native Title Council welcomes federal funding boost for Traditional Owner organisations

The National Native Title Council has welcomed the Federal Government's $75 million investment in Traditional Owner organisations to manage native title rights.

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 3, 2025
OPINION: Economic partnership or political theatre? Government’s Garma plan questioned amid worsening outcomes

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.

Reece Harley Reece Harley Aug 2, 2025
“Beads and trinkets”– Lidia Thorpe slams Prime Minister’s “exercise in optics” at Garma

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".

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 2, 2025
Coalition of Peaks, PM and First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance announce "historic agreement"

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...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre Aug 2, 2025
PM lays out economic path to Indigenous empowerment

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.

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Keira Jenkins Aug 2, 2025
Spotlight on youth as sun sets on Garma Festival start

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...

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Keira Jenkins Aug 1, 2025
History, culture celebrated at 25th Garma festival

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...

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Keira Jenkins Aug 1, 2025
Nation mourns passing of cherished leader, Mr B Yunupingu

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...

Giovanni Torre Giovanni Torre May 9, 2025
Violence, punitive laws mark horror year for the NT

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Jan 1, 2025
NT intervention 'totally justified', former PM says

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.

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Caitlin Powell Aug 19, 2024
'Fire in the minds' of next group of Indigenous leaders

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...

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Keira Jenkins Aug 12, 2024
Malarndirri McCarthy says PM's comments on Makarrata taken further than intended

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...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 5, 2024
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