Essay On Namatjira's Influence On Aboriginal Society

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How Have Indigenous Australians been Treated In the past 200 years in regards to Australia’s Constitution as well as Government Legislation surrounding the treatment of Aborigines Agriculture was not a choice made by our society, after humans had hunted many staple food species to extinction the need a new source of food, this source came in the form of easy to manipulate crops such as, like wheat, rice and corn as well easy to tame animals such as sheep, chicken, camels, horses, cows, etc. The advent of Agriculture gave birth to modern civilisations through a butterfly effect, Agriculture gave birth to townships surrounding food, increased demand for food gave birth to surplus as food supply began to outgrow demand, surplus gave birth …show more content…

Until Mr Brackenreg purchased the full copyright to Namatjira’s work in 1982 from a Northern Territory Trustee, (meaning he would hold the copyright until 2029), Namatjira’s family no longer received royalty’s from their ancestors artworks, it was later found that Namatjira had written a final will and testimony “in which he passed his assets — including the copyright — to his wife and children.”, once this fact was uncovered Namatjira’s family fought for the regaining of the artistic copyright, this battle went on for decades, only coming to an end in late 2017 with the copyright transfer back to the Namatjira family, with the assistance of Dick Smith (an Australian millionaire) who struck a deal with

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