Bunjil’s win kinetic sculpture in First Peoples exhibition, Bunjilaka , Melbourne Museum. Photo: Dianna Snape Photography. © Dianne Snape 2013.

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On the First Peoples exhibition in the Bunjilaka Gallery at Museum Victoria

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Professor Andrea Witcomb of Deakin University walks through the new First Peoples exhibition in Bunjilaka Gallery at Museum Victoria in Melbourne and finds its mixture of politic and poetics shows the Musuem is a place of advocacy as well as exposition.

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