Four Women: (I do belong) Double (2017)

Music just can’t be about the art, but it has to be an expression of the good, bad, and ugly in life…

— Nina Simone from Nina Simone: Four Women

“This year (2017) is the fiftieth anniversary of the 1967 Australian Referendum where Australian citizens overwhelmingly voted for Aboriginal people to be counted in the Australian census as human beings. Many ideas were moved by Aboriginal people ourselves in that decade and the 1970s. The creation of the Aboriginal Medical Service (1971), the Aboriginal Legal Service (1970), and the Black Theatre (1972). In 1963 the people of the clans of Yirrkala ‘mission’ painted what is called the ‘Bark Petition’ for Australian Parliament to claim their prior ownership to land in east Arnhem Land and begin the process of the recognition of Aboriginal ‘land rights’.”

— Djon Mundine OAM FAHA
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