The first day of Garma Festival began with a reminder of this year's theme, "bukmak", a Yolŋu word meaning "everyone". "I can think of no better word to put at the very centre of education, because a future that leaves a single child behind is not a future that benefits anyone in this country," National Commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Children and Young People Sue-Anne Hunter said on Friday morning.
Garma节首日以重申今年主题“bukmak”（Yolŋu语，意为“所有人”）拉开序幕。澳大利亚原住民和托雷斯海峡岛民儿童与青年全国专员苏-安·亨特周五上午表示：“我想不出比这更好的词来置于教育的核心，因为一个落下任何一个孩子的未来，对这个国家的任何人都没有好处。”
The commissioner promised that she would come back to Garma every year for as long she held her role and "tell the truth about how this nation is treating our children". "Our children learn in two worlds, yet they walk in many," she told those gathered in Arnhem Land for the nation's largest Indigenous meeting. "They carry language, kinship, ceremony, country in one hand and the classroom and the curriculum and the exam in the other. We ask a great deal of them."
该专员承诺，只要任职，每年都将重返Garma，“说出这个国家是如何对待我们孩子的真相”。她在阿纳姆地（Arnhem Land）对聚集在此参加全国最大规模原住民集会的人群说：“我们的孩子在两个世界中学习，却要在许多世界中行走。他们一手承载着语言、亲属关系、仪式和土地，另一手拿着教室、课程和考试。我们对他们的要求太高了。”
Shadow Education Minister Julian Leeser said the "single best thing" to improve outcomes across the board in Indigenous affairs was to get kids to attend and complete school. "In Australia an Aboriginal boy is more likely to go to jail than university," he said. "But, as I have said before, on graduation, an Indigenous graduate will earn at least on par with a non-Indigenous graduate." Mr Leeser took advantage of Anthony Albanese's absence from the event, telling the audience that the prime minister had "lost his direction on Indigenous affairs" since the Voice referendum failed.
影子教育部长朱利安·利瑟表示，改善原住民事务整体成果“最好的单一举措”是确保孩子入学并完成学业。他说：“在澳大利亚，一个原住民男孩进监狱的概率比上大学还大。”但他补充道：“正如我之前所说，毕业时，原住民毕业生的收入至少与非原住民毕业生持平。”利瑟先生利用了安东尼·阿尔巴尼斯总理缺席此次活动的机会，告诉听众，自“原住民之声”公投失败以来，总理在原住民事务上“迷失了方向”。
Mr Leeser took advantage of Anthony Albanese's absence from the event, telling the audience that the prime minister had "lost his direction on Indigenous affairs" since the Voice referendum failed. "We all know where the prime minister stood on the Voice," he said. "I stood there too. But since the defeat of the Voice he just hasn't gotten off the mat." Mr Albanese's absence from Garma this year has not gone unnoticed. "Mob want to hear directly from our prime minister, showing leadership and the ability to come and listen," Kerrupmara and Gunditjmara man Travis Lovett told the ABC's Tahnee Jash.
利瑟先生利用总理缺席的机会，称总理自“原住民之声”公投失败后在原住民事务上“迷失了方向”。“我们都知道总理在‘原住民之声’上的立场，”他说，“我也曾站在那边。但在公投失败后，他 simply hasn't gotten off the mat（未能重新站起来/振作起来）。”阿尔巴尼斯今年缺席Garma并未被忽视。克尔普马拉和贡迪吉马拉人特拉维斯·洛维特告诉ABC记者塔尼·贾什：“族群（Mob）希望直接听到我们总理的声音，展现领导力并前来倾听。”
Bluey was welcomed onto country with a ceremonial dog dance and posed with kids and adults, including ABC Chair Kim Williams, throughout the day. One child even brought his puppy, Rio, to meet the cartoon blue heeler. Later tonight people will gather to watch Bluey episodes translated into Yolŋu Matha. They were produced at Yolŋu Radio's studio in north-east Arnhem Land. Bluey's dad, Bandit, is voiced by Dimathaya Burarrwanga, a founding member of Yolŋu surf rock band King Stingray, and her mum, Chilli, is voiced by Yolŋu educator Rosie Mununggurr.
《布鲁伊》（Bluey）在“土地”上受到了仪式性“狗舞”的欢迎，并与包括ABC主席金·威廉姆斯在内的儿童和成人合影。一个孩子甚至带来了他的宠物狗里奥，去见这只卡通蓝赫勒犬。今晚晚些时候，人们将聚集在一起观看翻译成Yolŋu Matha语的《布鲁伊》剧集。这些剧集在阿纳姆地东北部的Yolŋu广播电台工作室制作。布鲁伊的爸爸班迪特由Yolŋu冲浪摇滚乐队King Stingray的创始成员Dimathaya Burarrwanga配音，妈妈奇莉则由Yolŋu教育家Rosie Mununggurr配音。
It is genuinely heartening to see the festival centre on 'bukmak'—'everyone'—rather than division. The fact that Bluey episodes are being translated into Yolŋu Matha by local educators like Dimathaya Burarrwanga shows how cultural pride and modern media can intersect without erasing identity. While the political posturing over the PM's absence is predictable, the real story here is the community-driven effort to keep language alive through accessible, beloved content. This is what inclusive progress looks like: respecting tradition while embracing tools that engage the next generation.
看到节日以“bukmak”（“每个人”）为核心而非分裂，真的令人欣慰。Bluey 剧集由 Dimathaya Burarrwanga 等当地教育家翻译成 Yolŋu Matha 语，展示了文化自豪感和现代媒体如何在不抹杀身份的前提下交汇。虽然对总理缺席的政治炒作 predictable，但真正的故事是社区推动的、通过受欢迎的内容让语言得以延续的努力。这就是包容性进步的样子：尊重传统，同时拥抱能吸引下一代的工具。