Groote school reopens after smoking ceremony removes ‘curse’

On Groote Eylandt, in the Gulf of Carpentaria, Indigenous residents readily acknowledge the existence of curses.

So when one was placed on Angurugu School, supposedly by a man after a fight with his wife, it closed for the next 13 days.

But the 159 students returned today, after the Anindilyakwa Land Council conducted a smoking ceremony to rid the building of the curse.