Headlining NGV’s “Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s” from 2 June to 1 October is the 1994 work “Fake Flag” by Greek Australian artist, Constanze Zikos. In this work, the Union Jack bedecked Australian flag is given a new twist with stunning design and…
East Arnhem Land leaders call for Australia to become a Republic. They claim that removing the Queen would be more meaningful to Indigenous people than constitutional recognition and call for significant – not symbolic – new change to Australia’s system of government to…
The evening of Sorry Day found WfaAR at the National Gallery of Australia for an engrossing evening of Indigenous speakers: Aboriginal Black Power activist from the 1960s and 70s turned academic, Dr Gary Foley now at Victoria University in Melbourne; historical artist and…
Using the elegant legal drafting of a preamble, delegates of our First Peoples attending a constitutional convention release The Uluru Statement from the Heart. It was read by Professor Megan Davis as the sun set at Uluru. It states the never-ceded sovereignty of the Indigenous Nations through their…
The 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial opens at the National Gallery of Australia and runs until 10 September with the theme “Defying Empire”. The exhibition contains works by 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across the country who defy stereotypes, colonisation, definitions and untold stories….
Puerto Ricans will go to the polls on 11 June to decide if their country will become a State of the United States. This is the fourth such poll (it’s a plebiscite), the last one was in 2012 (80 percent turnout) but all…
Soloist with the Canberra Symphony Orchestra, cellist Umberto Clerici, an Australian-Italian who teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium discusses on ABC Canberra his reasons for basing himself in Sydney as a professional classical musician. Australia, he explained is a place where you are free to innovate…
Reinstated in todays 2017-18 funding announcement by the Federal Government is $170m to conduct a plebiscite on same-sex marriage – but only as a contingency, that is, a risk of unexpected expenditure, if for some reason, it came back onto the boil after being rejected…
When the rest of the royal story might be about to fail, even on account of old age, there’s always a reliable fallback in Diana. We note the uptick in media attention in the lead-up to the 20th anniversary of her…
Continuing the media’s fixation with our head of state’s health and longevity (see News Update of 1 January 2017), there is intense media speculation in Britain, picked up in the colonies, that a very big announcement was about to be made – the Queen…
