For most visitors it’s a trip of hundreds or thousands of kilometres, but for staff and students of Flinders University’s Nhulunbuy Clinical Training and Education Facility joining the Garma Festival was more of a hop, skip and a jump.

Held annually in the midst of a stringybark forest in Arnhem Land, the internationally renowned Garma Festival promotes Yolngu cultural development, bringing together community leaders from five north east Arnhem regional clan groups with visitors from around Australian and the world.

The event is intended as an interface between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia, and this year the Flinders Northern Territory Medical Program participated at the on-site Expo, while Flinders medical students were also involved in the clinical services provided at the event by Miwati Health.

The University’s Nhulunbuy facility is the most remote training school in Australia, and is the base for up to 16 students throughout the year.

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