Foreign Minister Penny Wong unveiled Australia’s deep ancestral ties with Pacific neighbors as a strategic foreign policy asset, while Indigenous Australians Minister Malarndirri McCarthy shared her family’s historic Macassar trade links and reflected on land rights milestones amid regional changes. At Garma, a new land council was launched to empower local communities economically, and Noel Pearson called for urgent reform of remote Aboriginal governance, urging a shift in Commonwealth jurisdiction after the failed referendum — all highlighting a powerful push to center Indigenous heritage and self-determination in Australia’s future.

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