"The fire that we have brought to you in our ceremony has the energy and the power to show who we are and where we come from."

So said Djunga Djunga Yunupingu, cousin of Galarrwuy Yunupingu, leader of the Gamatj clan in north-east Arnhem Land. Djunga was addressing an extraordinary gathering at the foot of Uluru, the place he called the heart of our nation, after he and other Gamatj leaders had performed a dance about the fire, or gurtha, that links his Yolngu people with the Anangu of Uluru.

It fell to the Gamatj and the dancers from the Torres Strait to be the spark that ignited this country's first Indigenous constitutional convention. 

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