The Aboriginal Copyright Cases

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Nagesh's recipe for Biryani
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Nagesh Seethiah

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Geological pit stops: Kate Hill and Isadora Vaughan
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Abbra Kotlarczyk

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John Mateer

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Sera Waters

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Darren Jorgensen

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Art in the time of the burning
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Ian Milliss

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Reading the entrails: Digesting posthuman entanglement
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Sasha Grbich

Published 01 December 2019

At the 1988 Conference in Broome the author spoke of the growing unlawful use of Aboriginal art by T shirt companies and the fashion industry generally.

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Aboriginal Music; Broome Style: Towards Bran Nue Dae
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Broome, sleepy, dusty, sub-tropical country town on the north west of Western Australia, with a population of only 7,000 has at least 5 working bands including the well known bands Kuckles and Scrap Metal - a myriad of solo performers as well as traditional Aboriginal musicians.

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Pitchat and Beyond
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Until recently, Pitjantjatjara communities had very limited acces to or influence from mainstream media, communications, technology and information systems. English is still a foreign language to most of the population and functional levels of literacy are very low.

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The Association of Northern and Central Australian Aboriginal Artists.

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Hello. My name is Marshall Bell. I live at Inala in Queensland. My father was from the famous Jiman Tribe of Hornet Hill massacre mob. My mother was from the Kamilaroi nation Gunedah/Kooma clans. I was born at the now defunct Charleville Aboriginal reserve in the desert of south west Queensland. Having been living off my art for the last 5 years in a suppressive Queensland environment, I think I know what it is like to be living in isolation.

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Maningrida: Traditions Open to Change
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Maningrida Art and Craft is synonymous with the best of contemporary traditional Aboriginal bark painting and sculpture, both major individual works and important collections.

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Desert Designs
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Examines the Desert Designs Company formed by Stephen Culley and David Wroth which began in the early 1980s.

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Jumbana Designs
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East to West: Land in Papunya Tula Painting
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Gordon Bennett: Expressions of Constructed Identity
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Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music
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Located in the University of Adelaide in South Australia the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music was set up in 1972 in order that many aboriginal people both urban and tribal may develp effective skills of communicating their cultural, social, political and economic feelings through music to Australian people and the world at large.

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