The exhibition project has been transferred to the Ministry of the Arts. It was announced in the 2015-16 Budget that administration of the Visions of Australia program has been transferred from the Australia Council for the Arts to the Ministry for the Arts.
August 6 is known as Hiroshima Day, and this year it marked the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Quite a number of media reports covered the event and its aftermath, including ABC Hobart, which presented a moving interview with author and Hiroshima survivor Junko Morimoto who has been living in Australia since […]
Opening of Ten Minutes to Midnight, a multi-arts showcase presented by Alphaville and the Nuclear Futures Project at The Block, QUT Creative Precinct, in Brisbane. Nuclear Futures is a three-year international collaborative arts and cultural programs assisted by the Australian Government through Australia Council of the Arts.
Greg Franks, the chief executive of Yalata Community Incorporated – part of a community of 300 people 800km west of Adelaide – said the organisation has voiced concerns about Federal government plans to cut support for services in remote communities. Greg Franks told The Guardian: “The community has grown a lot over past few years, […]
National Trust Ceduna Museum holds an astounding collection of all sorts of objects, from gramophones to farming equipment. The array of displays, sheds and buildings is a treasure trove and time capsule of life in the region from early 20th century to the mid-1970s.
The prospect of visiting a former atomic test site causes a feeling of unease. Would it be safe? Could remaining radiation or radioactive dust particles harm? What to expect, what to see? While the site had been declared safe for temporary visits around 2000 signs erected every 50 metres around the 300 km area remind […]
Burrinja Cultural Centre has been successful in applying for development funding from the Australian Government through Australia Council of the Arts’ Visions of Australia touring program. Burrinja Cultural Centre curator JD Mittmann is delighted that the touring exhibition can now be properly developed with the prospect of a national tour to be launched in September […]
Black Mist Burnt Country has been accepted into the NETS Victoria’s Exhibition Development Fund (EDF). NETS (National Exhibition Touring Support) offers three grants of up to $10,000 available for any one project, devolved to NETS from Arts Victoria to develop touring exhibitions of contemporary art, craft and design.
In an official ceremony the Defense Department handed back to Maralinga Tjarutja the last parcel of land of the vast ‘Section 400’; the area where the seven atomic bombs where tested in 1956 and 1957. “It’s a hurting history”, Keith Peters, Chairperson of Maralinga Tjarutja, told the handover ceremony in the presence of the federal […]
Yami Lester is a Yankunytjatjara man who reported a mysterious ‘black cloud’ travelling closely to the ground across the country and the Aboriginal encampment of Wallatinna cattle station after the first ‘Totem’ test at Emu on 15 October 1953.