MONA to create Truth & Reconciliation Park

Australia is dotted with cenotaphs but the wars on our own soil have gone unrecognised, until now.
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Mona Macquarie Point 2050 Vision. Rendering: Fender Katsalidis Architects with rushwright associates and SCENERY.

A light and fire installation celebrating 40,000 years of continuous culture in Tasmania and a Tasmanian Aboriginal history centre will be built on under new plans presented by the Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) for the redevelopment of former industrial site, Macquarie Point.

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Richard Watts is ArtsHub's National Performing Arts Editor; he also presents the weekly program SmartArts on Three Triple R FM, and serves as the Chair of La Mama Theatre's volunteer Committee of Management. Richard is a life member of the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, and was awarded the status of Melbourne Fringe Living Legend in 2017. In 2020 he was awarded the Sidney Myer Performing Arts Awards' Facilitator's Prize. Most recently, Richard was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Green Room Awards Association in June 2021. Follow him on Twitter: @richardthewatts