leader Galarrwuy Yunupingu and fellow Yolngu leader Djambawa Marawili, were present on Friday as the treaty agreement was signed. Facilities Barunga School provides education for students from preschool to the middle years, with up to Year 12 supported by the NT Open Education Centre. , the school is developing links with Wugularr and Bulman schools through the Vocational Education and Training (VET) program. The school has six 6 teaching staff and 14 non-teaching staff, with 54 boys and 48 girl students, 99% with languages other than English as a first language. As a very remote school in an area of socioeconomic disadvantage, at this point most of its students do not fall into the top quarter of achievement (as per the NAPLAN statistics, but the number has been growing since 2011. The Bagala Community Store opened in September 2017, after local women raised the need for good food at affordable prices. Run by eight staff, it is the only store in the NT entirely owned and operated by Indigenous people. it stocks fresh produce and other foods, as well as hardware, mechanical goods, small electrical appliances as well as major appliances. The community has a health clinic, camping grounds, sports oval, basketball courts, softball pitch and council office. See also Uluru Statement from the Heart Yirrkala bark petitions References Further reading Barunga Festival Official Website Towns in the Northern Territory Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory