Whams and Whimms: An Exercise in Classification and Meaning

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Lipstick and Land Rights: matriarchal sovereign history and the cyber frontier
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Lorna Munro

Published 24 January 2022
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We Don't Fabricate, We Weave: Kumarangk (Hindmarsh Island) and Ngarrindjeri women’s resistance
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Dominic Guerrera

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Reclaiming the Rock in Project Banaba: Creativity, survival and agricultural colonialism in the Pacific
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Katerina Teaiwa

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Gallery Lane Cove
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Lipstick and Land Rights: A poetic response
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Lorna Munro

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Woven Selves, Entangled Countries: Weaving across borders
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Dameeli Coates

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Sovereign city, sovereign self and Warrior Woman Lane
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Timmah Ball

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Gallipoli Art Prize
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Miyurr Mi:wi: Working from home in the spirit of Country
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Tracey Rigney

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My Sovereign Mind: A practice in two parts
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Hayley Millar Baker

Published 15 December 2021

Interview with Louise Dauth about issues of gender. Dale Spender is a foundation member of the Women Heritage and Museums Group.

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Headlands: Thinking through New Zealand Art. Exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney from 31st March 1992. Article by the co-curator Robert Leonard.

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A Dialogue with Richard Grayson
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Independent Curators
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