Albanese says he supports the full implementation of the 2017 Uluru Statement from the HeartCredit:Rhett Wyman
Conversation buzzed around blue water coolers and in clusters along the mess hall’s plastic garden furniture. It was clear they were energised,despite the sweltering heat. They talked in impassioned,urgent tones amid innumerable mentions of the need to rally,to do more within their own communities.
Back at the Knowledge Centre – headquarters for festival organisers and a makeshift media compound cum corporate dining room cum yoga and tai chi studio – the reporters scampered,trying to file reports as technology beneath them foundered.
Beyond its verandahs,groups of local clan leaders yarned among themselves in their melodious Yolngu Matha.
They watched the local children kicking up red dust and the balanda roaming between the clumps of stringybarks,with their tops swaying against the stiff easterly breeze picking up and blowing in from the gulf and the Arafura Sea.
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