Greg Bearup

Greg BearupFeature writer, The Weekend Australian Magazine

Greg Bearup is a feature writer at The Weekend Australian Magazine and was previously The Australian’s South Asia Correspondent. He has been a journalist for more than thirty years having worked at The Armidale Express, The Inverell Times, The Newcastle Herald, The Sydney Morning Herald and was at Good Weekend Magazine before moving to The Weekend Australian Magazine in 2012. He is a three-time winner of the Walkley Award, and has written two books, Adventures in Caravanastan and Exit Wounds, written with Major General John Cantwell. He is also the creator of the hit podcast, Who The Hell is Hamish?

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Wednesday November 08 2023 DAVAAR. $3 million upgrade for Hutt St revealed as Davaar House opens following huge restoration. Small and Family Business Minister Andrea Michaels speaks at the press conference.Picture: Roy VanDerVegt

Ministers weighed freeze on all funds to APY collective

A meeting of arts ministers last year canvassed options that would freeze all future government funding to the controversial APY Art Centre Collective until there was a change of management.

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‘WE’VE GOT TO STOP DEMONISING EACH OTHER’The Weekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 20 JAN 2024. FEE MAY APPLY. Australian Magazine- Riverbank Frank Doolan , Indigenous elder and local Dubbo resident living on the banks of the Macquarie River with his dog Reggie. Photography Jeremy Piper

The remarkable life and wisdom of Riverbank Frank

He was once an angry, whitefella-hating revolutionary. Now, Riverbank Frank Doolan is a beacon of forgiveness and love | WATCH

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02-08-2023 - Sally Scales is seen at The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice: A Dialogue for Students event hosted by the Australian National University in Canberra. Picture: Martin Ollman / The Australian

NGA board member Sally Scales flips on white hands involvement

National Gallery board member Sally Scales, a leading figure in the controversial APY Art Centre Collective, has declared there is nothing wrong with Indigenous artists using white assistants.

Greg Bearup and Tricia Rivera

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White hands on black art ‘cultural theft’

NT Arts Minister Chansey Paech confirms a panel looking into the APY Arts Centre Collective found substantial wrongdoing in all areas it was tasked to probe.

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WHITE HANDS ON BLACK ARTNation

NT Arts Minister Chansey Paech. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Call for art centre management plan

NT Arts Minister Chansey Paech has called for a new national regime to manage the nation’s art centres following the white hands on black art scandal.

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2023: Skye O'Meara at the APY Art Collective in Thebarton, South Australia. PIC: Brett Hartwig

In the frame: APY art centre to face probe

The APY Arts Centre Collective faces investigation for possible criminal or civil charges after a six-month probe into the controversial organisation sparked by The Australian.

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An indigenous owned and operated art gallery in AdelaideÃ•s CBD, forced to leave its current premises early next year after the university which owns the building cut its lease short. Skye O'Meara, (F) with artist, Rhoda Tjitayi (L), and Sally Scales (R), not happy about the situation, but have some options to consider. 5 August 2021. Picture Dean Martin

The art establishment tried to sweep a scandal under the rug

As the evidence mounted, APY arts boss Skye O’Meara drew around herself a protective Indigenous cloak — and in the process dragged the establishment down with her. Now officials have some explaining to do.

Greg Bearup

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Dick Smith at home in Sydney on Friday, November 10, 2023. Dick Smith has given $1million to the Tax Department after he wasnÃt required to pay anything. Picture: Nikki Short

Rich should pay their share, says Smith

After discovering that he’d paid no tax, due to donating $5m to charity, Dick Smith insisted the ATO take a million dollar donation as his contribution to the country.

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Wolgan Valley feature. Paul Vought stands atop the Donkey Steps, the colloquial name given to the new pass into the Wolgan Valley by locals. It was the original pass into the Valley when equipment was bought in in the late 1860s by donkey. Behind Paul is the Wolgan Valley. The old road collapsed in on itself after the Black Summer Bushfires followed by a series of rain events Photo: Dean Sewell / Oculi for the Australian

Off the beaten track: forgotten valley’s lockout disaster

The closure of Wolgan Gap Rd has turned Wolgan Valley, less than 100km from the outskirts of Sydney, into one of the most isolated parts of Australia.

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ExclusiveWeekend Australian Magazine

EMBARGO FOR TWAM 28 OCT 2023. FEE MAY APPLY L-R Daen B, Kaiden K and Sye M at The Glen, Aboriginal community controlled drug and alcohol rehabilitation in NSW. Nic Walker/TWAM

How do you break the grim cycle of Indigenous incarceration? Start here

The Glen, an Indigenous-focused rehab centre on the NSW central coast, is a much-loved local institution. People are proud of it and there’s a team of eager volunteers who help out. The residents’ stories are moving – as are the centre’s results.

Greg Bearup

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