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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.

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