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Australia’s other Indigenous culture

In the rush to embrace our Indigenous arts, is the unique culture of the Torres Strait being overlooked?

7 May 2013

Richard Watts

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In the rush to embrace our Indigenous arts, is the unique culture of the Torres Strait being overlooked?

Creative Australia, the recently launched National Cultural Policy, has as its first goal a long-overdue recognition of the ‘centrality of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures to the uniqueness of Australian identity’.

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Richard Watts

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