Barunga Festival 2024

13 June 2024

What a weekend it was at the Barunga Festival 2024!

Thank you to everyone who visited the Council stall over the duration of the festival and had a look at the designs for the new Barunga Statement Memorial Project.

Bagala Traditional Owner Esther Bulumbara and Council Deputy Mayor Helen Lee spoke to The Honourable Eva Lawler MLA, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, about the importance of the project and what it means to the Barunga community to have a memorial for this significant historic milestone.

The Council will be looking to secure funding partners for this project and progress towards completion by the 2025 Barunga Festival.

Barunga Festival 2024 — The Honourable Eva Lawler MLA, Chief Minister of the Northern Territory, Bagala Traditional Owner Esther Bulumbara and Council Deputy Mayor Helen Lee at the Council Stall.

Mayor Tony Jack and Acting Chief Executive Officer David Hurst had the honour of accompanying The Administrator of the Northern Territory around the festival on Saturday afternoon, meeting stall owners, festival attendees and performers who had travelled from all over the Territory!

The Camp Dog Challenge was a huge success with a large crowd showing up on Saturday to watch the show. Congratulations to the Barunga residents and dogs that competed.

A big thank you to Paws Darwin for their support of this event! The Paws team came down from Darwin in the weeks leading up to the festival to help train the dogs and also helped today!

We would also like to thank the following sponsors as well: