A Response to 'Incidental Benefits'

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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
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Hannah Donnelly

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imagineNATIVE at 20
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Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

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Jonathan Jones

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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
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Kirsten Thorpe

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Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
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Ali Cobby Eckermann

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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
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Bruce Pascoe

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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
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Lorena Allum

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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
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Pauline Clague

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Response to the article by Peter Anderson in this issue of Artlink examining arts industry rhetoric and policy objectives.

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Incidental Benefits: Arts Industry Rhetoric and Policy Objectives
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The notion of the arts as an industry dates in Australia from about 10 years ago with the beginnings of statistical data measuring the economic impact of artistic activity. ... (Response to this article by Anna Ward, Director of the National Association of Visual Arts also in this issue of Artlink.)

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Predicaments of Furniture Design
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No matter what we say about furniture, it seems to have been said before. Small wonder that painting and installation attracts our writers more than furniture, when discourse about tables and chairs is confined to the rehearsal of so many grim platitudes. But if banality beleaguers the objects themselves, it is still more oppressively unavoidable in discussion of the unfortunate Australian industries of furniture design and manufacture.

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