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Jan Djan Billycan – an unlikely art star who shared her mastery of the aesthetics of form and colour

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 17 Mar 2016
But fate foretold that so many of the Aborigines born into a traditional nomadic lifestyle around Well 33 on the Canning Stock Route would end up as artists, whether their destiny was to live in Warmun in the East Kimberley (Rover Thomas), Balgo in the Tanami Desert (Eubena Nampitjin), Fitzroy Crossing (Stumpy Brown) or Bidyadanga on the coast south of Broome (Jan Billycan)....

Halls Creek player Sam Petrevski-Seton stops by Los Angeles on way to AFL

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 28 Jan 2016
For someone from a remote outback town of about 1800 souls, sudden immersion into a sprawling, hectic megalopolis of nearly 19 million can scramble and scuttle the senses ... "It's too big." ... Sitting in a hotel lobby in the seaside chic suburb of Santa Monica, a world away from his native Tanami Desert, as the dense volume of human and auto traffic paraded outside, Petrevski-Seton seemed mildly amused, not intimidated ... trip....

Singer and songwriter Kev Carmody's time for the national spotlight has finally come

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 28 Dec 2015
A less generous spirit than Kev Carmody might have grown to resent the fact that it's other performers who have so often had success with his songs ... But it's wholly characteristic of the man that he sees only good things where others might tend towards bitterness ... Advertisement ... "I wanted it to feel raw like it had been in an empty B-double cattle truck and it's travelled to Broome across the Tanami desert on the corrugates."....

PhD changes lives in Central Australia (Charles Sturt University)

Edit Public Technologies 15 Dec 2015
(Source. Charles Sturt University) ... Ms Erin Hunter will graduate with a Doctor of Education (EdD) from CSU's Faculty of Education in Bathurst today, Wednesday 16 December ... The basis of Ms Hunter's EdD is an Indigenous education program that links a remote Indigenous school in the Tanami Desert in the Northern Territory, with two Sydney schools which are providing the education for selected secondary students from the remote community....

Japangardi Miller's Mount Theo Program rid community of the curse of petrol sniffing

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 08 Dec 2015
Johnny Japangardi "Hooker Creek" Miller, then just six years old, escaped the bullets and headed deep into the Tanami Desert to seek refuge at Mount Theo​, 450 kilometres north-west of Alice Springs ... His methodology was simple ... He would wake up at sunrise, spend all day working in the desert sun, sometimes having a break for a smoke, but then "working, working, we didn't knock off until about seven" ... ....

THE WHOLE STORY: NEW PUBLICATION DETAILS MINING’S CONTRIBUTION TO THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY (Minerals Council of ...

Edit Public Technologies 09 Nov 2015
(Source. Minerals Council of Australia) THE WHOLE STORY. NEW PUBLICATION DETAILS MINING'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY ... This publication details how modern mining operates in regions as diverse as the Hunter Valley, the Pilbara, the Bowen Basin, Port Augusta and the Tanami Desert ... A copy of The Whole Story can be downloaded here ... distributed by....

$120 million expansion for Tanami Desert gold mine

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 05 Nov 2015
The Granites Gold Mine in the Northern Territory to receive a $120 million expansion ... ....

The dynamic Tanami Desert

Edit Australian Broadcasting Corporation 28 Oct 2015
In the Red Centre of Australia, the Tanami Desert is alive with wildlife, including rare native animals and feral pests. Local Aboriginal people are helping scientists to research the impact feral cats have on wildlife. Watch this clip to see incredible footage of the desert, its people and its animals ... ....

Connecting the Dots: Aboriginal Art Tied to Land, Religion (University of Connecticut)

Edit Public Technologies 14 Sep 2015
Aboriginal art in central Australia is "very abstract" but also very symmetrical, in part because the designs that represent the land and other objects are also used as body art, says Dussart, who began her career in anthropology at the Sorbonne in Paris and earned her doctoral degree from the Australian National University conducting fieldwork with the Warlpiri people in the Tanami Desert....

Artist Mandy Martin opens solo exhibition at Beaver Galleries, Canberra

Edit Canberra Times 02 Sep 2015
When Mandy Martin sees a smoke plume rising over the hill near her property in central-west NSW, two possibilities spring to mind. Is it someone burning off or is it a bushfire? ... All the themes feature in her latest show, A Change in the Weather, which also includes works painted after visiting Western Australia's Lake Gregory near the Tanami Desert and others from during her 10th and ongoing environmental project in Arnhem Land ... ....

Art in the palm of your hand at the Mini Ceramics show at Bilk Gallery ...

Edit Canberra Times 01 Jul 2015
Mini Ceramics. By Pippin Drysdale, Brigitte Enders, Bev Hogg, Mitsuo Shoji, and Hiroe Swen. Bilk Gallery, Manuka. Until 11 July ...   ... Drysdale's large urn-shaped vessel in shimmering oranges, greens and yellow, and the series of small bowls of greens and orange-yellow tonings is based on the artist's memories of specific locations in Western Australia – Cat Paw Hills, the Canning Stock Route and the Tanami desert ... ....

Liam Jurrah, and friend, on the prowl with the Kilcunda Bass Panthers

Edit Canberra Times 12 Jun 2015
Last Saturday, Liam Jurrah played in the Victorian country for the Kilcunda Bass Panthers. . Watching the Panthers warm up through a smudged window in their changerooms, I felt a pang of excitement at seeing him again, this man who brought so much to the AFL during his all too-brief career of 36 games ... Five hours' drive from Alice Springs, Yuendumu is on the edge of the Tanami desert ... In 2009, he won Melbourne's best and fairest ... ....

Jenni Kemarre Martiniello hits her stride as she reinvents the weave

Edit Canberra Times 21 May 2015
Jenni Kemarre Martiniello has created her latest works with sensitivity and assurance. Photo. Matt Bedford. ReInventing the Weave – glass by Jenni Kemarre Martiniello. Canberra Glassworks. Until June 7 ... Since then, she has found a strong voice in this medium ... Most of the small-scaled message sticks are named after native birds, such as the magpie, lorikeet and galah, and one is named after the Tanami Desert ... ....
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