Garma pageant begins
What started as a yard barbecue and a “jam session” now attracts 1000’s of individuals to one in every of Australia’s most distant areas every year.
It has been 25 years because the annual Garma pageant’s humble beginnings and the Yothu Yindi Basis, which organises the occasion in north-east Arnhem Land, is paying homage to those that began it.
The situation is the culturally important ceremonial grounds of Gulkula, the place every year artwork, music, bunggul (dance) and storytelling are showcased.
Garma has grow to be an vital coverage discussion board, with Anthony Albanese, the Indigenous affairs minister, Malarndirri McCarthy, and different politicians slated to talk on the four-day pageant.
These talks co-exist with discussions of tradition, training and different important points for First Nations folks.
The 2025 Garma theme is “rom ga waŋa wataŋu”, or “the law of the land, standing firm”, mirrored the Yolngu battle for empowerment and land rights.
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Tim Ayers says authorities committee to seeing Glencore’s Mount Isa smelter keep open
Tim Ayres, the minister for business, innovation and science, stated this morning “everybody” has a accountability to “commit, engage and make sure we’re investing in the future” as Glencore considers closing a smelting plant in Mount Isa, Queensland that helps 1000’s of jobs. Prime minister Anthony Albanese spoke concerning the potential closure yesterday, saying Australia had been “good to Glencore,” including “It’s about time Glencore is good back to Australia”. Ayres advised RN Breakfast:
The message is that the identical message for Glencore as it’s for a spread of those different smelters round Australia which might be in difficult circumstances in the intervening time. That’s, everyone’s received a accountability to commit, interact, and ensure we’re investing in the way forward for this.
So we’re engaged because the federal authorities, but it surely’s additionally about what state governments ship, what the business itself delivers, what the availability chain delivers, and the way forward for these capabilities and the house owners themselves have an vital position to play.
Ayers wouldn’t rule out helping Glencore to maintain the smelter open, saying there might be “focused and deliberate” discussions within the coming weeks.
We’re completely on the desk, completely engaged to grasp what’s the finest future. Sustainable, aggressive enterprise right here that may drive jobs and funding in North Queensland.
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NSW MP Alex Greenwich helps pro-Palestine Harbour Bridge march
Jordyn Beazley
The impartial NSW MP Alex Greenwich helps the pro-Palestine protest deliberate for Sydney Harbour Bridge, saying it “would send a powerful global message”.
The march may nonetheless go forward if the court docket sides with police, however protesters face being arrested below anti-protest legal guidelines.
Greenwich, the state MP for Sydney, stated there may very well be a march throughout the bridge this weekend, saying “I know it can be done”. In a press release this morning he stated:
Having efficiently lobbied the earlier Coalition authorities to permit a march throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge in help of LGBTQ equality throughout Sydney WorldPride, I do know it may be performed.
I share the widespread group horror over what is going on in Gaza and help using the Sydney Harbour Bridge to march towards the atrocities. This might ship a robust international message of our solidarity to cease the hunger of individuals in Gaza.
Greenwich stated he had been in common contact with police concerning the weekly pro-Palestine protests – which normally marches by the Sydney CBD and falls inside Greenwich’s citizens – and stated it has “consistently proven to be peaceful events with police and organisers working well together to ensure public safety”:
I hope organisers proceed to work with police to make sure that these protests can proceed safely and that settlement will be reached to permit a protest throughout the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Jordyn Beazley
PM reiterates that Israel’s actions in Gaza are ‘not defensible’
Again to Albanese for a second. He was additionally requested on ABC’s 7.30 final evening if he considers it too late for “people in Gaza, especially children in terms of malnutrition and starvation in Gaza”. He stated:
These are horrible circumstances. And they’re utterly unjustifiable and indefensible. I made that clear in discussions I straight had with President Herzog of Israel and I make public feedback as nicely.
I feel Australians all would need to see that by no means occur and we’re deeply involved. It’s exhausting for us to get support in and positively the dropping of support by air has not been sufficient. You should open up totally entry for support into Gaza in order to save lots of lives.
Requested if his conclusion was that Israel was utilizing hunger as a weapon of struggle, he stated:
Effectively, what I’d say is that Israel’s actions are usually not defensible. After we handed a decision within the parliament, we stated very clearly Israel has a proper to defend itself, however the way it defends itself issues and it must adjust to worldwide regulation.
And after we see the substantial lack of harmless life, the deprivation that’s occurring in Gaza, the very fact is that Hamas, in fact, with their actions on October 7, in fact are chargeable for partaking in terrorist exercise, and the state of Israel in fact responded by defending itself. However the figures that we’ve seen with the lack of harmless life and deprivation in Gaza are a human tragedy.
Requested if he was saying Israel is responsible of a struggle crime, Albanese stated: “No, there’s processes to go through [to make] those sort of declarations.”
Garma pageant begins
What started as a yard barbecue and a “jam session” now attracts 1000’s of individuals to one in every of Australia’s most distant areas every year.
It has been 25 years because the annual Garma pageant’s humble beginnings and the Yothu Yindi Basis, which organises the occasion in north-east Arnhem Land, is paying homage to those that began it.
The situation is the culturally important ceremonial grounds of Gulkula, the place every year artwork, music, bunggul (dance) and storytelling are showcased.
Garma has grow to be an vital coverage discussion board, with Anthony Albanese, the Indigenous affairs minister, Malarndirri McCarthy, and different politicians slated to talk on the four-day pageant.
These talks co-exist with discussions of tradition, training and different important points for First Nations folks.
The 2025 Garma theme is “rom ga waŋa wataŋu”, or “the law of the land, standing firm”, mirrored the Yolngu battle for empowerment and land rights.
The 2 Australians who had been on board a ship intercepted by Israel whereas making an attempt to move support to Gaza final weekend had been anticipated to reach again in Sydney this morning.
We’ll convey you extra particulars on that later, however you’ll be able to learn extra about what occurred to journalist Tania Safi and human rights activist Robert Martin right here:
‘Wish to make sure that it’s not only a gesture’: PM holds agency on Palestinian recognition place
Jordyn Beazley
The prime minister stated final evening that Australia will solely recognise a Palestinian state as soon as it “can make a contribution to the creation of two states”.
Showing on ABC’s 7.30 final evening, Anthony Albanese was requested what needed to change to ensure that Australia to recognise Palestinian statehood after Canada joined the UK and France’s introduced they meant to take action on the UN Normal Meeting in September.
We are going to give consideration to all the components that are there. However I imagine very strongly that the professional aspirations of the Palestinian folks have to be realised, however to ensure that that to be achieved, there must even be safety for the state of Israel.
Requested what’s stopping Australia from making an analogous dedication to Canada, Albanese stated: “We want to make sure it’s not just a gesture but it’s a positive contribution.”
Albanese was pressed on what precisely wants to vary for his stance to vary. He responded:
Effectively, it received’t be a private resolution, it will likely be a call by the Australian authorities based mostly upon the evaluation that my fellow cupboard members will make … making that declaration will really make a distinction and be a constructive step in the direction of the realisation of the two-state purpose.
Requested if Australia will recognise Palestine if the US doesn’t, he stated: “We’ll make our own decisions.”
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Good morning and welcome to our stay information weblog. I’m Martin Farrer with the highest tales this morning after which it’ll be Nick Visser to take you thru to the weekend.
The query of whether or not Australia ought to be part of the UK, France and Canada in recognising a Palestinian state continues to dominate the federal politics image this week after Anthony Albanese appeared on ABC’s 7.30 and defended his authorities’s stance to stay on the fence on the problem. Full particulars of what the prime minister stated arising.
The impartial NSW MP Alex Greenwich has come out in help of the pro-Palestine protest deliberate for Sydney Harbour Bridge on Sunday, saying it “would send a powerful global message”. His help comes because the Palestine Motion Group goes to the supreme court docket at this time to problem a call by police chiefs that the bridge shouldn’t be shut down to permit the march to go forward. We’ll have extra shortly.
