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SOME AUSTRALIAN NGOs
Aboriginal Legal Service (NSW/ACT) – established in 1970 as the first Aboriginal Legal Service in Australia, ALS now has 23 offices and 185 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal staff across NSW and ACT, working towards achieving justice for Aboriginal people and the community
Arts Law Centre of Australia – an independent legal centre providing free or low cost legal advice, education and resources to Australian artists and arts organisations incl Artists in the Black targeted services to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists
Asylum Seeker Resource Centre – Australia’s leading asylum seeker organisation, an independent and non-federal government funded human rights organisation, working at the coalface to assist some of the most disadvantaged people in our community
NAVA – is the national peak body for the visual and media arts, craft and design sector – it sets and monitors adherence to best practice standards, undertakes advocacy, research, policy and project development, data collection and analysis, and member service
SOME AUSTRALIAN CONTENT
Australian Artist Focus – Arnie Arnold “is gaining an increasingly high profile in the art world for his surreal and sometimes provocative style” Clair Weaver, Sunday Telegraph
Australian Artist Focus – Nanami Cowdroy is complex, detailed, elaborate and exotic, juxtaposing foreign and familiar with imagination to spare
Australian Music Focus – funkDJ is an independent producer making electronic music with a downtempo or house beat
The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow – Bill Gates