Going Over Old Ground

Cover of Going Over Old Ground
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Amala Groom: Cosmic Body of remembrance
Feature
Hannah Donnelly

Published 01 June 2019
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imagineNATIVE at 20
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Pauline Clague in conversation with Jason Ryle

Published 01 June 2019
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Sydney Elders: Continuing Aboriginal Stories

State Library of NSW

Feature
Jonathan Jones

Published 01 June 2019
PICA
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Speaking back to colonial collections: Building living to Aboriginal archives
Feature
Kirsten Thorpe

Published 01 June 2019
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Unravelling the past: Barbed wire and campfire learnings
Feature
Ali Cobby Eckermann

Published 01 June 2019
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Dark Emu: Thank the Earth
Feature
Bruce Pascoe

Published 01 June 2019
NAVA
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Deaths in custody: We've got to give it everything
Feature
Lorena Allum

Published 01 June 2019
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Indigenous storytelling: Deconstructing the archetype
Feature
Pauline Clague

Published 01 June 2019

The artist discusses the research for her exhibition entitled 'The Private Eye- a foreigner's power of observation'. Held in regional Victoria 1998.

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