The Garma Festival is an invitation to the clans to join in the diplomacy of kinship. It’s also a rare chance to engage with the world’s oldest living culture.
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Speakers at the annual festival discussed the challenges their local communities face and the future they want to see if the Voice referendum succeeds.
The very first Garma Festival was held just before the turn of the millennium, in 1999. Led by the late Yunupingu it was a small-scale event, little more than a backyard barbecue. But the mission of its founders remains: to be a cross-cultural meeting of leaders to discuss improving standards of living for all First Nations people.