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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos - July 31, 2025: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese during Question Time at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Voice leaders accused PM of using Garma as ‘performative opportunity’

Labor has been accused of using the nation’s biggest festival of Indigenous culture to spruik talking points, rather than address hardships facing Aboriginal people.

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GULKULA, AUSTRALIA. NewsWire Photos. AUGUST 2, 2024. The Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures Australia's largest Indigenous cultural gathering is underway in Gulkula northeast Arnhem Land. Picture: Yothu Yindi Foundation/Melanie Faith Dove via NewsWire

‘Law of the land’: Garma Festival celebrates 25 years

Two laws, two cultures and two worlds will once again meet on the ancient ceremonial grounds in far north of the country for the 25th annual Garma festival. See what’s planned over the four day event.

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Bolmo clan woman Rachel Willika Kendino at Gunlom Falls, in Kakadu National Park. Picture: Zizi Averill

Gunlom Falls exposes cracks in Kakadu Park management ‘marriage’

A five-year fight over an illegal walkway has brought up dark memories of dispossession and voicelessness for Kakadu National Park Traditional Owners.

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No New Gas Coalition members Grusha Leeman, Juanita Kwok, Phil Scott, Reverend L Lee Levett-Olson, Chris Cox, Alice Nagy and Liz Howells outside the Supreme Court in Darwin. Picture: Zizi Averill

Climate change risks thrown out in Top End fracking appeal

A gas company is celebrating a ‘vindicating’ victory after a Territory court rejected the threat of ‘unsustainable greenhouse gas emissions’ as a relevant environmental risk for a Beetaloo fracking project.

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Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett. Picture: Kane Hibberd / Supplied

Aussie rock legend calls out plans for Kakadu

An Australian rock legend has claimed “people will be ready to rally from every corner of the nation” if a uranium licence is extended in Kakadu National Park.

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Mirarr Traditional Owners Yvonne Margarula met with the NT Chief Minister and Mining Minister on Friday, April 19, over the proposed Jabiluka mine lease extension. Picture: Zizi Averill

Radioactive battle lines drawn over NT mine proposal

Territorians are fighting to expand Kakadu National Park to stop another radiactive scar from being carved into Country.

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NT Attorney General and Treaty Minister Chansey Paech at the NT Treaty Symposium at Darwin on Monday April 8.

NT Treaty process not ‘mucking around’

The Attorney-General has recommitted NT to a Treaty pathway following last year’s Voice failure. ‘We don’t need the rest of the country’s permission to do what we need to do.’

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Mililma May (L) with her aunty, Larrakia elder Lorraine Williams. Picture: Rebecca Parker

Protesters vow to block bulldozers ahead of Lee Point clearing date

Save Lee Point activist face a ticking clock as a date has been set for land clearing to resume for a controversial Top End housing development.

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Northern Territory

NT intervention sign outside Alice Springs

Echoes of NT Intervention slammed as ‘draconian’ and ‘racist’

Territorians alarmed by the revival of Intervention-Era politics have slammed calls for military and federal police to be rolled out on the streets, punitive income management and leaders who said remote communities had a “culture of not working”.

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Northern Land Council Chair Matthew Ryan. Photo: Wayne OÃ¢â¬â¢Donoghue.

New Northern Land Council chair elected

One of the most powerful voices in Territory politics has announced its new leader, five months after the passing of Dr Bush-Blanasi.

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Mulka MLA Yingiya Guyula at Garma Festival 2023. Picture: Zizi Averill

Aboriginal Voice in NT proposed after national ‘no’ vote

A Yolngu Elder told his parliamentary colleagues his people were “suffocating” under bureaucracy and has called for Aboriginal Territorians to be given a direct Voice to parliament.

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Deputy Chief Minister Chansey Paech at Parliament House. Picture: Fia Walsh

Territory Treaty process dusted off after 12-month hiatus

The Territory has restarted consultations on a Treaty with First Nations people, a year after a $4.2m report was unceremoniously shelved.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA, NewsWire Photos. OCTOBER 16, 2023: Minister for Indigenous Australians Linda Burney in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Voice fallout: Indigenous leaders go quiet on truth-telling

When Indigenous affairs ministers from around Australia met for the first time after the failed referendum one key topic was missing from the discussion.

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Mulka MLA Yingiya Guyula at Garma Festival 2023. Picture: Zizi Averill

Fresh delays to the Territory’s own Voice to Parliament

A public hearing discussing the Territory’s own Voice to Parliament has hit an eleventh-hour stumbling block.

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