Indigenous Issues: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program
Current activities
‘Balgo: Contemporary Australian Art from the Balgo Hills’
A riot of colour and energy, Balgo explores the stories, lives and history of the Kukatya language speakers in the Balgo Hills, Western Australia. The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, in conjunction with the Commonwealth art repository, Artbank, is proud to tour this exciting exhibition throughout its global network of diplomatic missions.
(Songs of Indigenous Australia CD cover front and back, various artists)
‘Songs of Indigenous Australia: A Compilation of Music by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People’
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has continued its collaboration with Darwin-based independent recording company, Skinnyfish Music, in the production of a second Indigenous music compilation: “Songs of Indigenous Australia: A Compilation of Music by Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People”.
Following on from the success of “Listen Up – Music of Black Australia” launched in 2002, the new music compilation features well known Indigenous artists, such as Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu, Dan Sultan and Tom E Lewis, and will be distributed to the department’s overseas posts to feature during NAIDOC Week 2009.
About the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program (ATSI)
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade:
- develops projects and initiatives that underline the important contributions of Australia's Indigenous peoples through their involvement in the arts, business, industry and professional fields;
- displays exhibitions owned or leased by DFAT, throughout the world;
- delivers and supports cultural programs and activities;and
- produces publications on Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and cultures for the Department's overseas posts.
For further information contact:
Executive Officer
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program
Tel: 02 6261 2860
Fax: 02 6112 2860