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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
Clancestry Festival returning to QPAC with a stellar line-up of artists
Queensland Performing Arts Centre's Clancestry festival will return in 2026, bri...
Joseph Guenzler 17 Mar 2026
Solemn apology in treaty 'reset' with Aboriginal people
A historic apology will be delivered to Aboriginal people as a state recognises...
Callum Godde 9 Dec 2025
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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
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Garma organiser urges action on 'horrors in statistics'
Political leaders have been warned their attendance at one of Australia's larges...
Keira Jenkins 3 Aug 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
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
$2 million in funding for Yolŋu-English Arnhem Land school's permanent hall

A Yolŋu-English bilingual school in North-East Arnhem Land will soon have a permanent assembly hall for its students. Dhupuma Barker, an independent school of around 40 students from kindergarten...

Jarred Cross Jarred Cross Apr 15, 2025
Youth Yindi Foundation announce architects to design Garma Institute

The Yothu Yindi Foundation have announced Troppo will work in collaboration with Greenaway Architects and Mantirri Design, a landscape architecture studio, to design the Garma Institute in northeast A...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Aug 26, 2024
Fire, strength, renewal at the heart of Garma Festival

Fire gives strength, energy and power, and will be central to this year's Garma Festival in the Northern Territory. Australia's largest Indigenous cultural festival attracts thousands of people to nor...

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Keira Jenkins Aug 2, 2024
"Like groundhog day" - Yothu Yindi Foundation says Productivity Commission findings were all too predictable

A "drastic" overhaul of GST funding and the way governments interact with Indigenous communities are some of the suggestions from the Yothu Yindi Foundation in response to the Productivity Commission...

Dechlan Brennan Dechlan Brennan Feb 7, 2024
Yothu Yindi performance electrifies Australian music royalty

A stirring two-song live performance from Yothu Yindi was the highlight of an all-star concert featuring a who's who of Australian music paying tribute to Mushroom records.

David Prestipino David Prestipino Nov 27, 2023
Yothu Yindi honoured with new display in the Australian Music Vault

National Indigenous music Awards Hall of famers Yothu Yindi have been honoured with a new display in the Australian Music Vault."Few musicians have had as profound an impact on Australia's cultural an...

Rhiannon Clarke Rhiannon Clarke Aug 27, 2023
Yolngu mental health tool unveiled at Garma Festival

Gundirr, a new mental health tool was recently introduced during the Northern Territory's Garma Festival. It aims to empower mental health service providers, aiding Yolngu patients in adopting patient...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Aug 10, 2023
Yothu Yindi to be inducted into NIMA Hall of Fame

Iconic Indigenous music group Yothu Yinidi is set to receive a long-awaited honour after being announced as the newest inductees into the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMA) Hall of Fame, which is...

Joseph Guenzler Joseph Guenzler Aug 7, 2023
Two friends share musical stories of balance at Garma

Music legends Paul Kelly and Witiyana Marika from Yothu Yindi have shared how the rock anthem Treaty came to life. Speaking at the Garma festival on Yolngu country in northeast Arnhem Land in the Nort...

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Rudi Maxwell Aug 7, 2023
Mining money to fund new Arnhem Land education centre

People in remote northeast Arnhem Land will be able to access a $6.4 million tertiary institution to improve their job prospects and learning.

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