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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Murray George, Fregon Elder with Donald Fraser, Pukatja Elder in the APY (Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands), South Australia. Picture Matt Turner.

In APY Lands, early death the great divide

In the remote South Australian region, the odds are you’ll be dead before you’re 55. But despite this poverty of outcomes, or possibly because of it, there’s uncertainty about the referendum.

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APY Lands - APY Lands Council general manager Richard King.

Cops stay away as violence explodes

The policing of the remote APY Lands of SA has been labelled ‘absolutely appalling’ after violence erupted between rival families and the police ‘were nowhere to be found’.

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Rachel Perkins with Felicity at one of the Town Camps in Alice Springs. Picture Matt Turner.

Perkins’ plea on NT: ‘I want people to see this’

I’ve been to slums in India and Myanmar as desperate as this. But they weren’t on the outskirts of a prosperous regional city in a wealthy developed country.

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NT Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Chanston "Chansey" Paech at Yuendumu (Chansey Paech)

‘White hands concerns are valid’

NT Arts Minister has written to Tony Burke to push the ‘valid and numerous’ concerns Indigenous art industry leaders have about a SA-led probe into the APY Art Centre Collective.

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**Upsized** Early 2023 Nick Mitzevich, Sally Scales, SA Arts Minister, Andrea Michaels, and Wynne Prize winner, Zaacariah Fielding at the APYACC's Adelaide studio , (Greg Bearup APYC investigation)

Gallery pulls back on APY ‘commitment’

The National Gallery of Australia appears to be stepping back from an earlier pledge to host Ngura Pulka, an exhibition of paintings from the controversial APY Art Centre Collective.

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Adam Worrall, Director, at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory. Photo: MAGNT/Mark Sherwood

‘White hands’ centre given exhibition ban by Top End gallery

The Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory’s director Adam Worrall will not work with the APY Art Centre Collective following its expulsion from the Indigenous Art Code.

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EMBARGO FOR TWA 18 FEBRUARY 2023. FEE MAY APPLY. Saturday 03 December 2022. Indigenous artists from the APY lands here in Adelaide South Australia (L) Nyunmiti Burton with Jennifer Ingkatji. Photo: TWAM/Roy VanDerVegt

White hands, cash and ‘coercive control’

Indigenous artist Jennifer Inkatji had just started a new painting when she left Skye O’Meara’s studio for dialysis treatment. She returned to find it finished and up for sale | WATCH

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15/05/2023: Skye O'Meara - General Manager at APY Art Centre Collective pictured outside of the Gallery in Adelaide today. Monday 15th May 2023. Picture: Brett Hartwig

APY art chief must step aside: integrity tsar

An investigation into the APY Art Centre Collective will ‘forever be under a cloud’ while manager Skye O’Meara remains, a public integrity advocate says.

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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 5: NGA Director Nick Mitzevich addresses the media at the National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

NGA’s hands have been washed clean

The head of the NGA has admitted he was ‘unaware’ that a panel that cleared 28 APY Art Centre Collective paintings of white interference had failed to interview a crucial whistleblower.

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Sally Scales pictured with her artwork about her homeland ÃAralyaÃ in the APY studio Adelaide.Sally Scales is an artist and young leader emerging on the national stage. She feels strongly about the rights of Aboriginal artists to make a fair living from their work and has devoted a lot of her time and skills to protecting elders from carpet baggers in the desert art world. Ms Scales, 31, is also calling for clear succession planning in the world of Aboriginal leaders, where she sees a form of ageism that ignores some important young talent.Friday 5 March 2021 Pic Roy VanDerVegt.

Indigenous artist blasts APY inquiry

Aboriginal artist and APY Arts Centre Collective board member Sally Scales launched an extraordinary attack on a tri-government probe into the white hands on black art scandal.

Greg Bearup and Joanna Panagopoulos

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