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Garma Festival,
Friday 3 to Tuesday 7 August 2007
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Day 3, Sunday 5 August
The Key Forum – Indigenous Health: real solutions for a chronic problem – continued with a session on Maternal and child health chaired by Ms Pat Anderson, one of the authors of the Little Children are Sacred report. Topics today included the importance of traditional midwifery, cultural security in health services, improving infant and mothers’ health, tackling inequalities in the health system and policy issues.
A plenary session on reducing risks to the health and safety of children chaired by Ms Carolyn Richards, NT Health Complaints Commissioner and Ombudsman with Pat Anderson and Rex Wild QC generated discussion on the Federal Government’s intervention.
The sold-out Cultural Tourism program continued with streams for men and women. The women began the day with a pre-dawn excursion with elders to be introduced to women’s business. Sessions on language and culture followed and the men honed their spear-making skills and practised throwing the finished products. There was also a session at The Yothu Yindi Women’s Healing Place on traditional medicines.
(Reminder: donations for the Healing Place can be made at www.healingplace.com.au).
 Other festival activities were in full swing.
The Yidaki Masterclass, with participants from around the world including Germany, Switzerland, US and Canada, continued crafting and learning to play the traditional instrument which originated at this very spot.
Multimedia training workshops continued, mentoring students from Yolngu communities who are the core of the Foundation’s Indigenous Recording Project which is recording and storing cultural traditions and practices in music, song and dance ceremony.
 The Youth Forum for 12-18-year-olds from Arnhem Land high schools had sessions on bush medicine, Yolngu culture, lino printing, health and fitness topics, and hip-hip writing.
The Contemporary Music Training Program held bass and drum classes.
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