Overview

• The new First Nations Economic Empowerment Alliance commits $70 million to clean energy projects and $75 million to native title reforms under a shared decision-making framework
• The initiative builds on the Closing the Gap Agreement by partnering the Commonwealth with the Coalition of the Peaks to support skills development, job creation and infrastructure on Indigenous lands
• Uluru Dialogue co-chairs Megan Davis and Pat Anderson denounced the government’s measures as performative, warning that children remain locked up and elders continue to die with no binding accountability
• Independent NT MP Yiŋiya Mark Guyula accused the territory government of ignoring community consultation, noting a 30% rise in Aboriginal incarceration since the CLP took power
• The 25th Garma Festival theme “Rom ga Waŋa Wataŋu” (‘The Law of the Land, Standing Firm’) underscored Yolŋu cultural resilience and the ongoing push for treaty, truth-telling and economic empowerment