Garma festival shows Yolngu culture in full colour

The role of a Yolngu delegation at the recent signing of an historic alliance between Australia and Fiji was evidence of the importance of utilising Indigenous diplomacy, the foreign minister said at Garma.

As leaders talk policy at Garma, Yolngu men, women and children step onto the Bungul ground, using ochre, song and story to show Australians who they really are