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Friday essay: the politics of Aboriginal kitsch

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posted on 2023-12-07, 04:24 authored by Liz ConorLiz Conor
Fitzroy’s Union Hotel stands in red-bricked, retro-decorated elegance on an inner-city corner. It’s a popular spot for Melburnians: Greens have held meetings there; emerging bands have found their fans. It’s also where I found this portrait of an Aboriginal girl.

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2017-03-03

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  • Textual creative work

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  • Essay or article

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The Conversation

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The Conversation Media Group

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Parkville, Victoria

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online

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© Liz Conor 2017 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)

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    Keywords

    Aboriginal historyIndigenous artAboriginal culture

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