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Who We Are

The Yothu Yindi Foundation was established in 1990 to promote Yolngu cultural development with community leaders and persons of authority from five regional clan groups:
• Gumatj
• Rirratjingu
• Djapu
• Galpu
• Wangurri

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What We Do

YYF’s work can broadly be divided into three main areas.

Education & the Garma Institute

Together with our partners, YYF is developing a world-class regional education hub on country in northeast…

The Garma Festival

Since 1999, YYF has staged the annual Garma Festival. Garma is a 4-day celebration of Yolngu art, culture, dance, ceremony …

Advocacy & Leadership

Since its inception, YYF has been a strong advocate on a range of issues impacting Yolngu and other First Nations people…

Yothu Yindi Foundation Board

Mr djawa Yunupingu

Mr Djawa Yunupingu

Chairman

Barayuwah mununggurr

Mr Barayuwah Mununggurr

Deputy Chairman

Ms Djapirri Mununggirritj

Ms Djapirri Munungirritj

Treasurer

Our Supporters

The Yothu Yindi Foundation is extremely grateful to the following sponsors and partners for their support of the Garma Festival.

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Interested in partnering with us? Call us on 08 8945 5055 or email admin@garmafestival.com.au for more information.

Latest News

Garma Institute

New school in remote NT achieving ‘phenomenal’ rates of attendance (Sky News 9/8/22)
Dhupuma Barker School boasts some of the best attendance rates in the NT (NT News 4/4/22)
Yolngu students travelling in style with deadly new bus (SBS 20/1/22)
Dhupuma: Looking up and looking forward (NT News 20/11/21)
Education future looking up for students in Arnhem Land (NT News 10/8/21)
Bold experiment from both sides of the great divide (The Australian 17/7/21)
New community-run school combines Indigenous culture with Aussie curriculum (Sky News 21/4/21)
Yothu Yindi Foundation plans to build new school at Garma site (ABC 20/9/20)

Garma Festival

An Indigenous Voice in Australia’s Parliament is Long Overdue (The Washington Post 16/8/22)
Behind the News (BTN) at Garma 2022 (ABC 2/8/22)
Thousands attend historic East Arnhem Land event – picture gallery (NT News 2/8/22)
Australian Geographic picture gallery (Australian Geographic 1/8/22)
Leanne Liddle calls out ‘racism in all its forms’ and its impact on the criminal justice system and domestic violence (ABC 1/8/22)
Q&A, Live from Gulkula (ABC 1/8/22)
Guardian picture gallery (Guardian 1/8/22)
Ancient Aboriginal meeting place comes to life after Garma’s three-year absence (ABC 31/7/22)
Insiders, Live from Gulkula (ABC 31/7/22)
ABC picture gallery (ABC 31/7/22)
Yolngu leaders call for action against inequality (NT News 30/7/22)
Garma Festival brings together ancient and new (The Australian 29/7/22)
Garma: the origins of Australia’s biggest cultural exchange event (NITV 28/7/22)
Australian Traveller: Experiencing Garma Festival in Arnhem Land, NT (Australian Traveller 29/6/22)

Advocacy & Community Leadership

Yunupingu compensation case starts in Federal Court (ABC Radio National 30/10/22)
Native title case could rewrite NT compensation history (The Australian 25/10/22)
First dedicated aged care home in the Northern Territory town of Nhulunbuy is nearly finished (ABC 27/7/22)
Why Australians in remote areas are paying 90 percent more for food (9 News 5/8/20)
Call to strip NTG of billions in federal indigenous funding (NT News 31/8/19)
How can the NT spend money allocated for remote Indigenous disadvantage elsewhere? (ABC 29/1/19)
NT Government agrees to review child services funding, despite pledging not to a month ago (ABC 16/3/18)
$500m meant for Indigenous services was spent elsewhere by NT government (Guardian 11/1/18)
NT indigenous communities miss out on $500m in GST aid (The Australian 10/1/18)

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Contact

Yothu Yindi Foundation

Postal address: PO Box 42119, Casuarina NT 0810
Email: admin@yyf.com.au
Phone: 08 8945 5055

Garma Enquiries

Email: admin@garmafestival.com.au
Phone: 08 8945 5055

Media enquiries, including Garma media registration:

media@yyf.com.au

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Don’t Miss Out

Subscribe to Yothu Yindi Foundation
Newsletter to keep updated with all our news

And please follow us on social media

Contact

Yothu Yindi Foundation

Postal address: PO Box 42119, Casuarina NT 0810
Email: Office@yyf.com.au
Phone: 08 8945 5055

Garma Enquiries

Email: admin@garmafestival.com.au
Phone: 08 8945 5055

Media enquiries, including Garma media registration:

media@yyf.com.au

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Don’t Miss Out

Subscribe to Yothu Yindi Foundation
Newsletter to keep updated with all our news

And please follow us on social media

Contact

Yothu Yindi Foundation

Postal address: PO Box 42119, Casuarina NT 0810
Email: Office@yyf.com.au
Phone: 08 8945 5055

Garma Enquiries

Email: admin@garmafestival.com.au
Phone: 08 8945 5055

Media enquiries, including Garma media registration:

media@yyf.com.au

About | Advocacy | Garma Institute | Garma Festival | Donate | Contact

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