$1650 tickets a ‘bargain’ for the Garma Festival

THE much touted Garma Festival where PM Anthony Albanese is supporting the radical Marxist “Truth Telling” operation, has locked out all but the wealthiest, sponsored bureaucrats and Aboriginal activist elite.

There’s no place for disadvantaged Aboriginals at the festival with tickets for entry costing up to $2750 – a handly little tax item for the bureaucrats, politicians and corporate sector media. We imagine that select students get their tickets paid for out of the billions of dollars in grants that flow to the indigenous industry annually.

A report surfaced on X claiming Albanese was overheard saying “we don’t want any trouble while the cameras are filming.”

Meanwhile Albo has told the indigenous bureaucratic elite gathered at Garma that he welcomes “the work that state and territory governments are doing to advance treaties, agreements and truth-telling processes.”

Albo wasn’t doing to detail what exactly all that involves, as he hand-balled responsibility on to the states and territories. So-called truth telling is suspect enough, but we might also wonder how “treaties” work at a state government level, given that treaties, legally, are agreements between nation states.

Meanwhile the Indigenous guilt industry is busily at work, following Northern Territory Police Commissioner Michael Murphy quitting the NT Police Association (NTPA), which criticised his apology to Indigenous people at the Garma Festival.

The resignation of Commissioner Murphy’s police union membership came after his apology on Saturday for a history of “injustices”, and a subsequent pushback from the NTPA, who are obviously not conducive to the idea of being made to apologise for doing their job.

NTPA acting president Lisa Bayliss acknowledged the importance of confronting and learning from the past, but also said it shouldn’t define the police force. “Our officers are committed to serving the community with integrity, impartiality, and professionalism, treating all individuals with the respect they deserve, regardless of race, gender, or background,” she said.

“Over the past 154 years, our membership, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, have protected the community, from domestic violence, alcohol abuse, and other forms of harm.”