Australia's largest Indigenous festival marks 25 years — as it happened
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Traditional dance opens Australia's largest Indigenous festival
Thousands of Australians converge on Gulkula in remote north-east Arnhem Land for the four-day Garma festival.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Australia's largest Indigenous festival marks 25 years — as it happened
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Thousands of Australians converge on Gulkula in remote north-east Arnhem Land for the four-day Garma festival.
Live: Voice leaders say government talking points won't be 'lapped up' at Garma
Thousands of Australians converge on Gulkula in remote north-east Arnhem Land for the four-day Garma festival.
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July 31, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Thousands of Australians converge on Gulkula in remote north-east Arnhem Land for the four-day Garma festival.
Numbulwar dancers perform a traditional dance during the 25th annual Garma Festival in Gulkula, NT.
(James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)
(James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)
August 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Numbulwar dancers perform a traditional dance during the 25th annual Garma Festival in Gulkula, NT.
(James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)
(James Ross/AAP PHOTOS)
In pictures: Garma 2026, a festival for 'everyone'
In pictures: Garma 2026, a festival for 'everyone'
The Garma Festival takes place across four days in Gulkula on Gumatj country in a stringybark forest at the top of an escarpment in north-east Arnhem Land.
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August 4, 2026 at 1:53 AM
In pictures: Garma 2026, a festival for 'everyone'
“The NT is a failed state with a carceral business model, taking funds from Canberra to support industrial-scale incarceration – from the age of 10 through to death – and the removal of children at rates exceeded only in authoritarian states.” | Marcia Langton
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
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August 11, 2026 at 2:56 AM
“The NT is a failed state with a carceral business model, taking funds from Canberra to support industrial-scale incarceration – from the age of 10 through to death – and the removal of children at rates exceeded only in authoritarian states.” | Marcia Langton
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“The NT is a failed state with a carceral business model, taking funds from Canberra to support industrial-scale incarceration – from the age of 10 through to death – and the removal of children at rates exceeded only in authoritarian states.” | Marcia Langton
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
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August 12, 2026 at 5:33 AM
“The NT is a failed state with a carceral business model, taking funds from Canberra to support industrial-scale incarceration – from the age of 10 through to death – and the removal of children at rates exceeded only in authoritarian states.” | Marcia Langton
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In pictures: Garma 2026, a festival for 'everyone': https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/garma-festival-2026-in-pictures-gallery-bunggul-gulkula/106994100
In pictures: Garma 2026, a festival for 'everyone'
The Garma Festival takes place across four days in Gulkula on Gumatj country in a stringybark forest at the top of an escarpment in north-east Arnhem Land.
www.abc.net.au
August 4, 2026 at 2:00 AM
In pictures: Garma 2026, a festival for 'everyone': https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-04/garma-festival-2026-in-pictures-gallery-bunggul-gulkula/106994100
Both Noel Pearson and Yingiya Mark Guyula have been arguing the same premise: that money raised nationally for Aboriginal disadvantage is being spent by states and territories on other things.
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
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August 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Both Noel Pearson and Yingiya Mark Guyula have been arguing the same premise: that money raised nationally for Aboriginal disadvantage is being spent by states and territories on other things.
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"A substantial part of what the country counts as money spent on Aboriginal people is money spent locking us up and removing our children," writes Marcia Langton.
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
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August 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
"A substantial part of what the country counts as money spent on Aboriginal people is money spent locking us up and removing our children," writes Marcia Langton.
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The Garma Festival takes place across four days in Gulkula on Gumatj country in a stringybark forest at the top of an escarpment in north-east Arnhem Land.
In pictures: Garma 2026, a festival for 'everyone'
The Garma Festival takes place across four days in Gulkula on Gumatj country in a stringybark forest at the top of an escarpment in north-east Arnhem Land.
www.abc.net.au
August 4, 2026 at 1:58 AM
The Garma Festival takes place across four days in Gulkula on Gumatj country in a stringybark forest at the top of an escarpment in north-east Arnhem Land.
"A substantial part of what the country counts as money spent on Aboriginal people is money spent locking us up and removing our children," writes Marcia Langton.
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
trib.al
August 10, 2026 at 9:05 PM
"A substantial part of what the country counts as money spent on Aboriginal people is money spent locking us up and removing our children," writes Marcia Langton.
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“The Northern Territory receives more per head than anywhere else in the federation precisely because of its large, remote and disadvantaged Aboriginal population, yet it does not spend this money to give those people equal standards of living.” | Marcia Langton
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
trib.al
August 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
“The Northern Territory receives more per head than anywhere else in the federation precisely because of its large, remote and disadvantaged Aboriginal population, yet it does not spend this money to give those people equal standards of living.” | Marcia Langton
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“There is no legislation to draft and no referendum to win to achieve transparency,” writes Marcia Langton. “There is only a decision to publish what is already known.”
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
trib.al
August 11, 2026 at 10:47 PM
“There is no legislation to draft and no referendum to win to achieve transparency,” writes Marcia Langton. “There is only a decision to publish what is already known.”
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"A substantial part of what the country counts as money spent on Aboriginal people is money spent locking us up and removing our children," writes Marcia Langton.
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
trib.al
August 12, 2026 at 4:38 AM
"A substantial part of what the country counts as money spent on Aboriginal people is money spent locking us up and removing our children," writes Marcia Langton.
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“The Northern Territory receives more per head than anywhere else in the federation precisely because of its large, remote and disadvantaged Aboriginal population, yet it does not spend this money to give those people equal standards of living.” | Marcia Langton
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
trib.al
August 13, 2026 at 3:15 AM
“The Northern Territory receives more per head than anywhere else in the federation precisely because of its large, remote and disadvantaged Aboriginal population, yet it does not spend this money to give those people equal standards of living.” | Marcia Langton
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Both Noel Pearson and Yingiya Mark Guyula have been arguing the same premise: that money raised nationally for Aboriginal disadvantage is being spent by states and territories on other things.
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
trib.al
August 12, 2026 at 10:18 AM
Both Noel Pearson and Yingiya Mark Guyula have been arguing the same premise: that money raised nationally for Aboriginal disadvantage is being spent by states and territories on other things.
trib.al/9X4x97S
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Thousands of Australians converge on Gulkula in remote north-east Arnhem Land for the four-day Garma festival.
Live: Voice leaders say government talking points won't be 'lapped up' at Garma
Thousands of Australians converge on Gulkula in remote north-east Arnhem Land for the four-day Garma festival.
www.abc.net.au
July 31, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Thousands of Australians converge on Gulkula in remote north-east Arnhem Land for the four-day Garma festival.
Both Noel Pearson and Yingiya Mark Guyula have been arguing the same premise: that money raised nationally for Aboriginal disadvantage is being spent by states and territories on other things.
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Two proposals from Garma for Indigenous Australia
On the first day of August this year, two men spoke at Gulkula, the sacred Gumatj land where the Garma Festival is held, about the same problem, and proposed competing solutions.
trib.al
August 10, 2026 at 4:19 AM
Both Noel Pearson and Yingiya Mark Guyula have been arguing the same premise: that money raised nationally for Aboriginal disadvantage is being spent by states and territories on other things.
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Garma Festival kicks off in north east Arnhem Land
Garma Festival kicks off in north east Arnhem Land
New youth justice measures have passed the Northern Territory Parliament, as the Garma Festival begins in the NT. The festival, now in its 25th year, attracts political and business leaders and academics to discuss issues affecting Aboritinal and Torres Strait Islander peoples nationally. NITV's Emma Kellaway and SBS Chief Political Correspondent Anna Henderson report from the remote north east of Arnhem Land at Gulkula.
www.sbs.com.au
August 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Garma Festival kicks off in north east Arnhem Land