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Senator Penny Wong was 'bagging Australia' with her critical November speech: Mundine22/01/2021|15min Indigenous leader Warren Mundine says Labor Senator Penny Wong’s statement about Australia’s background of white supremacism and the work she based her speech on is “quite crazy” as they did not provide evidence. Senator Wong last November cited the work of writer Bruce Pascoe and said there were Indigenous cities and towns in Australia separate from what would be considered hunter gatherer and Australia’s history had ignored it due to “white supremacism”. “These people, I d...

  Six time Archibald Prize Finalist Angus McDonald with Michael Brand, Director of the Art Gallery of NSW after Angus McDonald wins the 2020 Archibald Prize ANZ People’s Choice award for his portrait of Behrouz Boochani a Kurdish – Iranian writer, poet, filmmaker and journalist at the NSW Art Gallery in Sydney Australia. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Gaye Gerard "It says a lot about our region and the acknowledged talent that lives and works where we live," Ms Muddiman said. She said the exhibition they took down to make space for the Archibald was a collection of work from "well ...

Premium Content Subscriber only A great irony of Behrouz Boochani’s story is the fact his image has become so recognised in a country he has never been allowed to enter. A portrait by Lennox Head artist and filmmaker Angus McDonald depicting Mr Boochani certainly resonated enough with the public to be awarded the People’s Choice in the 2020 Archibald Prize. Mr Boochani, a Kurdish-Iranian journalist and writer, reached Australia by boat in 2013 and was detained on Manus Island until he was able to leave for New Zealand in 2019. There, he was ultimately granted asylum. Mr McDonald’s wor...

The Northern Rivers gallery will be the first stop for the prestigious art show’s regional tour.

Dark Emu in his introduction to his new book, Loving Country – a guide to sacred Australia, co-authored with Vicky Shukuroglou, an extract of which appears below. Perhaps 2021 can be the year then, to at least start to change that, as, in the face of closures and international border restrictions, we satiate the travel bug by exploring our own backyards more enthusiastically than ever before. Everywhere we go, from Broome to Bass Strait, we can be mindful of the Aboriginal culture there, past, present and future. And we can make this an endeavour not of token deference, but of real persona...