Spotlight on youth as sun sets on Garma Festival start
The controversial youth crime laws of the Northern Region are at a large domestic cultural festival.
ABORİJİN and Torres Strait İslander People were engaged in the Northern Region ABORİJİN Affairs Minister Steve Edgington and opposition leader Selena UIBO during a panel on Friday at the Annual Garma Festival on Friday.
Mrs. Uibo accused the government of ABORİJIN of removing the people without talking.
He said that the movement would lead to a bad policy and that he pointed to changes in the Youth Justice Legislation in the region this week.
The changes include the restoration of the salivary hoods and the removal of the detention as a last resort.
Uibo, “We are starting to see that a government has fallen through a dangerous way of separation with the people they have enacted in the northern region,” UIBO said.
When the government was asked if he was consulting and consulting the land councils or other Aboriginal groups that led to changes in the Youth Justice Laws, he said he did not have information in front of Bay Edgington.
However, he said that the Minister of Corrects went to talk to “different people ..
Bay Edgington said the government pointed out the issue of housing and focused on the struggle for “root causes”.
When he came to distant communities, he said that the focal point was “changing the landscape”.
“People living in remote areas feel like they have lost control of their communities,” he said.
“People want to take control of their communities. I hear this.”
Young people focus on the first day of Garma, which lasted 25 years in 2025.
School students and educators presented their success in the importance of learning in the country and a system that values the knowledge and Western knowledge.
Gumatj Corporation Operations Manager Michael Yunupingu, Late Gamatj leader Galarwuy Yunupingu’s grandson Michael Yunupingu summarized the objectives of the people of Yolngu at the opening address.
“My vision is to see a place that provides multi -faceted support in Yolngu, employment, education, health and prosperity and cultural laws,” he said.
On the opening day of the Güneş Garma Festival, they were the children who played the show at Bungul at night (ceremony dance).
The smallest dancers in front of the crowds gathered for the festival, the smallest dancers and the adults in the sand that make up the bungul areas, the importance of transferring cultural information was exhibited.
GARMA’s 2025 theme “Rom Ga Waŋa Wataŋu” or “Land Law, Standing Firm”, respects those who start the event.
Yothu Yindi Foundation General Manager Denise Bowden, 2025 Garma theme reflects the struggle for Yolngu’s struggle for strengthening and land rights.
“This year, this year, a real approval and the Garma Festival for a very big ideas for the Suffering brothers,” he said.
“Many of us were caught a little bit to do when we noticed their creations, because now every year, 3500 people are a national iconic activity that attracts a very distant place.”
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