Mulga Gidgee Pty Ltd

16/04/2024

2024 Empower Program -Sydney CBD
June 3 - July 12

27/07/2023

Couple of spots still left for the Sydney course starting next Monday. Hit me up!

11/07/2023

Yes folks it’s baaack….!!!!
Starts 31 July in Sydney CBD.
Get in contact if you’re interested.

13/09/2022

♥️😔♥️

12/05/2022

The passing of the Yidaki master…😔
We had the privilege of working with this man and his clan back in the Intervention times.
He was one of a kind. A great loss to the world.

'Irreplaceable': Globally-renowned master of the yidaki, Mr Gurruwiwi, dies in Arnhem Land

Mr Gurruwiwi was known as a genius, had toured the world, made Yothu Yindu's yidakis, and generously shared his instrument with people, including Gotye, who appeared in a biopic about his legacy. WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised this article contains an image of a p...

26/01/2022

Stan Grant nails it again…

What if Australia doesn't need a national identity?

It's that time of year again when, amidst the barbecues, beaches, citizenship ceremonies and protests, we turn our minds to questions of national identity. But can we define national identity at all? Should we even try, asks Stan Grant.

26/12/2021

Worro… 😔

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South African anti-apartheid activist and Nobel Peace laureate, dies aged 90

Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and veteran of South Africa's struggle against white minority rule, has died at an aged home in Cape Town, according to a statement on behalf of the Tutu family.

01/12/2021

No one could express this better…
We are all saddened by this giants passing.
Worro 😞

This photo was taken in 2017 at the Adelaide Film Festival for the 15th anniversary of the film, The Tracker, directed by Rolf de Heer, with my dear friend D. Kumanjayi, who played the Tracker. What he gave to Australia and Australian film cannot be measured. From Walkabout to Storm Boy to The Tracker, these films would have been so much less if it weren’t for this great actor. He was a good friend who I knew for many years. The very first screening of The Tracker in Adelaide was special because I sang the soundtrack live to the film. I remember my dear friend and brother saying that night nobody else could have sung these songs except you. Very sad for his passing.

22/11/2021

https://youtu.be/5CYSKJ3FWgs

Growing up as a kid in Brewarrina, Peter Williams says the Barwon River was so crystal clear you could see the fish swim past you and even rub their bellies ...

15/07/2021

A great sadness washes over us all with the passing of this amazing woman. 😔

It is with great sadness that I observe the passing of Dr B Marika, an inspirational Yolngu leader and deeply respected senior member of the Rirratjingu clan of North-East Arnhem Land.

Dr Marika AO was raised in a family of powerful lawmakers, artists and intellectuals.

She became a striking embodiment of all that knowledge and she held it at the highest levels of scholarship.

Dr Marika was a daughter of Malawan Marika, who was a signatory to the 1963 Yirrkala Bark Petition and a sponsor of Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd, the first real land rights case in Australia.

Malawan entrusted B Marika and her sisters as custodians of the clan’s sacred designs and stories. She became internationally recognised for her exquisitely detailed work, executed on bark, linocut and screenprint.

“The importance of the art is it contains laws, it contains protocols, it contains something you can pass on to your children and grandchildren,” she once said.

Dr Marika always impressed on her children and grandchildren that their country was home to an active spirit world.

Of these spirit inhabitants, she said: “They have feelings, too. You have to respect them because they have to survive in this harsh country as well. It’s not just you as a human being.”

Dr Marika was the first Aboriginal person elected to the board of the National Gallery of Australia.

She took on — and beat — a company that blatantly stole her artwork designs (and that of others) and had them printed on carpets that were imported into Australia.

Dr Marika was named Senior Territorian of the Year in 2020 for the leadership she gave as an artist and environmental carer.

I knew her and admired her. We have lost a person who spoke with such knowledge and such love for her land and her people.

I extend my condolences to Dr Marika’s family and to the Rirratjingu people.