Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Deputy Leader of the Opposition for her question. The theme of this year's festival at Garma—which was broadcast even if you weren't there and even if there wasn't anyone from the coalition who made the effort to sit down and engage—was 'Fire, strength, and renewal'—strength and commitment from First Nations people to deal with the trauma that many of them feel from the defeat of the referendum, which is very real. Regardless of where you stood on that issue, I would have thought that it would be appropriate to have some respect for the family of Yunupingu. Djawa, who has taken over the leadership of the Yolngu people, is the brother of Yunupingu, who was farewelled just a year ago—a great Indigenous leader and someone who was responsible, probably more than anyone else, for the Uluru Statement from the Heart.

What we did there was to acknowledge, as the incoming minister has done, the need to reach out—

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