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Aboriginal matters, the Murujuga – Western Australia

The director of the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre, MICHAEL MANSELL’s, recent comments about the protection of Aboriginal sites in Australia and prospects for world heritage listing of these sites are noteworthy.

“What we have got is about 50,000 years of human existence and evidence of that existence from one end of the country to the other. None of that heritage has been nominated by Australia as worthy of world heritage status. In the meantime 200 years of white history has resulted in Read more …

Knowledge, painting and country

Some of the best days you will ever spend in your life will be walking country with Aboriginal people in Australia.

The latest of what seems like a lot of trips to Darwin in the last couple of years, relating to various projects we had in the Northern Territory of Australia, was in August of 2010 to coincide with the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair and the 27th Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award (NATSIAA).