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This collection illustrates the many and varied ways that Australia's First Peoples express themselves through art.
The collection also shows how Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander peoples have...
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To mark the 50th anniversary of the first raising of the Aboriginal flag in July 1971, proud Kamilaroi yinarr (woman) Cheree Toka writes about what the Aboriginal flag means to her.
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Johnny Milner looks at influential Arrernte artist, Albert Namatjira and how he used his art as a vehicle for political reform.
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The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) will celebrate Mervyn Bishop, one of Australia's most prolific and influential photographers, with a new exhibition opening in Canberra on 5...
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This story from NITV News in 2016 shows Northern Territory artist Harold Thomas, the designer of the Aboriginal flag, receiving the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award for his...
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Emily Kame Kngwarreye (approximately 1910–1996) was an Anmatyerre artist and elder. She is one of Australia's most important contemporary artists.
She began painting when she was 79 years old having...
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Filmmaker and photographer Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia's most nationally and internationally successful artists, having held around 100 solo exhibitions of her work in Europe, the United...
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This news story from Nine News in 1997 outlines the copyright case that recognised artist Harold Thomas as the designer, and therefore the copyright owner, of the Australian Aboriginal flag.
Libby...
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Northern Territory Art Gallery Curator Franchesca Cubillo talks about the life of acclaimed Arrente artist Albert Namatjira (1902–59) and his citizenship granted in 1957.
This clip comes from a 2007...
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Dion Beasley is an Indigenous teenager who is deaf and has muscular dystrophy. He lives with his family in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory.
His teachers and carers, including Joie Boulter,...
