Thank you very much.
All the people who have turned up to this Cape York Laura Festival over many, many years.
Laura Cape York Dance Festival has always been part of the maintenance of the culture of Obama here in the Cape and the southern districts.
For our people to understand and to prevail and cope with the ever-changing society, we know that culture, our language, our law, and our land must prevail.
We have special visitors from a long way. They are on a quest to bring back the connection, the reconnection of Aboriginal people through law, through ceremony.
Can you please make welcome, Pitterton Jara!
My name is John Hardley. I'm a Gokui Island Juman. The people said well you have to dance with us.
We want to show that we are all brothers and sisters, right through our Aboriginal country, that we share many, many languages, but our law and our dreaming is the same.
We are all connected through the rock holes, through the trees, through the earth, and through the sky.
When the bushfire came to the country, the sparks were forming on one old lady and everywhere she tried to get away from the fire, the sparks and the flames kept touching her and her feet were walking on the rock holes.
We are the first people in Australia and we have to respect our law and culture, you know.
Everybody is going to stand up for their right and they think we are, we are the first people in Australia, this is our country and our country.
And we are supporting everybody, what tribe you are, and we are from you people too.
So we are all brothers and sisters.
The Enma that they perform is an ancient song of creation, born of earth and the spirit, and whose singing brings country into being, recognising the interconnection of everything.
And this is a wonderful song, we say, this is a wonderful of Australia for all the people.
