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Launch of The Albert Namatjira Collection

Saturday 27 October 2001 InfoZone, Melbourne Museum, Carlton

Launch with the Hon. Philip Ruddock MP, Federal Minister for Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs, Mr Geoff Clark, Chairman of ATSIC and Sir William Dargie.

Left to right
Shirley Baynes-Smith, Managing Editor, In the Artist's Footsteps
Geoff Clark, Chairman, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission
Sir William Dargie
The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP, Federal Minister for Reconciliation and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs viewing The Albert Namatjira Collection on In the Artist's Footsteps

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Ron Smith In the Artist's Footsteps speaking at the Launch The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP Geoff Clark Chairman ATSIC	The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP Geoff Clark Chairman ATSIC speaking at the Launch
The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP Sir William Dargie completing his painting at the Launch	Geoff Clark, Chairman, ATSIC painting at the Launch
The Hon. Philip Ruddock MP Andrew Mackenzie, Curator of In the Artist's Footsteps speaking about the Albert Namatjira painting at the Melbourne Museum Geoff Clark, Chairman, ATSIC	InfoZone staff of Melbourne Museum Sir William Dargie John Withers, Walter Withers grandson Keith Dow, President of the Watercolour Society

Left: Arthur Streeton - Above Us The Great Grave Sky, 1890
Collection: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra.