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Text: ‘Golden splendour: privilege, ceremony and racism in 1920s-1930s...
January 2023 Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that this posting contains images and names of people who may have since passed away. W Lister Lister (27 Dec...
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Text/Exhibition: ‘Mervyn Bishop: Australian Photojournalist’ at the National...
Exhibition dates: 5th March – 4th October 2021 Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that this posting contains images and names of people who may have since passed...
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Photo album: John “Jack” Riverstone Faviell (1892-1960), 1922-1933 Part 1
July 2021 Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that this posting contains images and names of people who may have since passed away. John “Jack” Riverstone...
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January 2014 Ashamed to be Australian… John Pilger (Australian, b. 1939) Utopia 2013 Wow, I heard about this video, but nothing compares to seeing and watching Australia’s sordid History...
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Photographs: ‘Australia’ Part 1
December 2018 Warning: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers should be aware that this posting contains images and names of people who may have since passed away. Anonymous photographer...
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Review: ‘Samson and Delilah’ Australian film directed by Warwick Thornton
May 2009 The Players Rowan McNamara, Marissa Gibson, Mitjili Napanangka Gibson and Scott Thornton Rowan McNamara as Samson and Marissa Gibson as Delilah This is a tough nugget of a film, an...
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Exhibition: ‘Colony: Australia 1770 – 1861’ at NGV Australia at Federation...
Exhibition dates: 15th March – 15th July 2018 Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Colony: Frontier Wars (15 March – 2 September 2018) which presents a powerful response to colonisation through...
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Photographs: Historical Australia Part 1
December 2017 WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that the following posting may contain images of deceased persons. The last posting of the year, because I am feeling...
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Review: ‘Under the sun: Reimagining Max Dupain’s Sunbaker’ at the Monash...
Exhibition dates: 6th May – 6th August 2017 “A GREAT review Marcus. As always. A master piece.” ~ Peter Barker, artist Installation view of the entrance to the exhibition Under the sun: Reimagining...
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Carte de visite: William Bardwell, photographer – Alfred William Howitt,...
April 2016 Caution: Art Blart advises that the subject of this posting may include images and names of deceased people that may cause distress to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. This...
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Video: ‘Cottees: There’s a lot to celebrate’ (2012) by GPYR-Melbourne /...
. insidious adj. Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects . There is a lot to celebrate living in Australia, the lucky country, especially if you are a white kid growing up in the...
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The First Australians: SBS TV Australia
A wonderful long overdue documentary series on SBS television about the history of ‘Terra Nullius’, the white occupation of lands through the persecutions, massacres and genocide acted on the...
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