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The other Indigenous coronavirus crisis: disappearing income from art

  • Written by Jon Altman, Emeritus professor, School of Regulation and Global Governance, ANU, Australian National University
The other Indigenous coronavirus crisis: disappearing income from artMichael Nelson's Tjakamarra's Five Stories, which sold for A$687,877 at Sothebys in London in 2016.SOTHEBY'S LONDON

Public health measures to reduce the spread of COVID-19 may be having an unintended effect on remote Indigenous communities.

With the closure of Aboriginal lands to visitors, tourist visits have stopped abruptly along with the income...

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