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Indigenous art fraud: Tourists ripped off $50m a year

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 […]

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Indigenous music makes mainstream moves

Mushroom Records, which promoted the hit ‘90s group, will mentor First Nations talent trying to break into the industry, thanks to a new pathways program with Eddie Betts as ambassador. If it wasn’t for Michael Gudinski, we may have never heard Yothu Yindi sing about “Treaty Yeah, Treaty Now.” The founder of Mushroom Records was […]

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