When visiting Australia’s iconic tourist destinations, it’s hard to pass up a peek into the souvenir shop. And for a couple of bucks you can nab yourself a boomerang, maybe a didgeridoo or some vibrant Indigenous paintings.
But chances are, what you’ve bought is fake.
According to a new report, two-thirds of the lucrative Indigenous art industry is fake but sold as authentic “Aboriginal” art for an expensive penny.
Mandatory labelling of ‘inauthentic’ products
The prevalence of fake Indigenous art has seen many Aboriginal artists walled out of an industry that not just…
