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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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CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 28: Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke holds a press conference recommending states and territories to consider a speed up domestic use ban of silica within six months at Parliament house in Canberra. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

Minister to probe black art scandal

Federal Arts Minister Tony Burke has confirmed he is investigating allegations of significant white interference in Indigenous paintings.

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Art Gallery Director Rhana Devenport with newly acquired works

White painters ‘common practice’: gallery

The Art Gallery of South Australia has emailed employees claiming white assistants painting on Indigenous canvases is ‘common practice’.

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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), artist Katie Curley (FL), Nina Haigh, (BL), Joanna Byrne,Sally Scales (BR) and artist, Inawintji (R), not happy about the situation, but have some options to consider. 5 August 2021. Picture Dean Martin

How wheels fell off ‘insane’ plan to bus 50 elderly artists

As the first Covid cases were being reported in Adelaide, arts centre chief Skye O’Meara came up with a plan to bring 50 Indigenous painters from remote APY Lands to Adelaide.

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Judge of the 2014 JADA John McDonald.Photo Adam Hourigan / The Daily Examiner

Indigenous art scandal has gone ‘nuclear’: SMH critic

John McDonald says he was not surprised to learn that white gallery assistants may have been working on Indigenous canvases in the APYACC’s studios.

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Stills taken from video where a non-indigenous employee is seen contributing to a painting by (Indigenous) artist Yaritji Young. The employee wearing darker clothing and holding a paint brush is Rosie Palmer, manager of Tjala Art in the settlement of Amata in the APY Lands.

White interference in black art probe ‘not wide enough’

An investigation into stunning claims of white interference in Aboriginal art must look into the culture that allegedly allowed such practices to take hold, says Indigenous art boss.

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Mysterious machinery behind effort to keep ‘white hands’ allegations secret

If National Gallery of Australia’s investigators find that white staff were painting on Indigenous canvases, they will also have to ask how this culture was allowed to exist, and who should have known.

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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

Eminent NGA panel to probe scandal

The National Gallery of Australia board will consider appointing a top jurist to head an investigation into allegations white gallery staff had painted sections of Indigenous artworks.

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Founder of Pwerle Gallery Jade Torres with her great grandmother Molly Pwerle in 2021 on their country 'Atnwengerrp'. Picture: Supplied

Family demands APY chiefs stand down

A gallery owner from one of the most famous families of Indigenous artists has called on the group’s management to ‘step down’ until after an Aboriginal art investigation has been completed.

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Still from video obtained by The Weekend Australian of the Tjala Arts Centre. Picture: The Weekend Australian

Art buyers urged to call watchdog

The Indigenous Art Code has praised the ‘courage’ of whistleblower artists for outing authenticity concerns surrounding Aboriginal art.

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The Dingo Project exhibition curator Djon Mundine poses for a photograph at the Ngununggula, Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, in Bowral, NSW, Thursday, January 6, 2022. (AAP Image/Bianca De Marchi) NO ARCHIVING

White painters in ‘ultimate sin’

The artist behind one of the National Gallery’s permanent displays says white staff painting on Indigenous work is ‘immoral’.

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