Eight years later indigenous Australians were given the right of full citizenship. In 1958 he was charged with supplying alcohol to indigenous people at Morris Soak, where a young woman had been murdered by her husband, and he was sentenced to at first six, later reduced to three, months gaol. It also gave him the right to buy alcohol, a privilege that would come to be his downfall. Then in the 1960s he turned to combining the aesthetics of the Hermannsburg School with traditional influences to suggest the sensation of place pictorially. Her father was Wapiti, an Elder from Merini in Kukatja Country in the Northern Territory. His observations of the differences between the Hermannsburg and Papunya approaches seemed matter of fact and not judgemental. Because of this, he was ostracised for several years. His name was changed from Elea to Alber after his parents converted to Christianity. The red bank forms a band across the picture, with almost vertical parallel lines over-painted. This expression of hidden knowledge was extended in the late 20th century by such notable indigenous artists as Rover Thomas, Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri, Turkey Tolson Tjupurrula, Ronnie Tjampitjinpa, Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Ada Bird, Gloria and Kathleen Petyarre, Tommy Watson and others, now recognised on the international art market. 1959 Keith flattened the picture plane to reduce the sense of distance, while adapting traditional practices of dotting to achieve affect in his non-Aboriginal audience. In another scene all parts of the country portrayed seem intimate and the viewer is welcome to enter. Keith was camped with, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory has a painting by Oscar of the same scene in the same year; perhaps the brothers painted together. One of the consequences of citizenship was that Namatjira was legally entitled to buy alcohol, but when he shared it with his fellow Arrernte, as custom required, he was sentenced to imprisonment. The renaissance was already beginning in the early 1970s when Geoffrey Bardon arrived to teach in the government settlement of Papunya, over 100 kilometres west of Hermannsburg. 7.30 Report ABC TV McLaughlin, Murray (prod.) He and his wife, Rubina, were granted citizenship in 1957, an entitlement not extended to all Aboriginal people until 1967. He used recurring motifs a ghost gum or another stately tree in the foreground, and an escarpment such as Ormiston Gorge or ranges in the background to tell his story of humans links with the spirit of the land. As an Indigenous Australian artist working in the mid-20th century, he was widely known among non-Indigenous . Citizenship gave Albert the ability to vote, own land and build a house. When, without his knowledge, a fellow indigenous artist, Henoch Raberaba, took a bottle of rum from the back seat of Namatjira's car, drank it and then beat a local woman to death at a party, Namatjira was charged with supplying an Aboriginal with alcohol and sentenced to six months in jail. He was raised on a mission in Hermannsburg. Two appeals. Stripes indicate the foreground. He dwelled in the greenery and the mountains of the bush for months. Charged, found guilty. But by the 1950s despite being the darling of the Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney art scenes while his works were commanding sell-out prices Namatjira was still the target of deeply-entrenched racist government policies, which prevented all indigenous people from owning land. The colour palette is of cobalt blue, lemon, pale crimson and black, with white of the tree trunks being unpainted paper. In November 1923, Ilkalita was baptised and given the name Rubina and their marriage was formally blessed. Mr Smith, whose father once worked for Legend Press founder John Brackenreg, said he explained the possible outcomes of a court case to the company. In this period he must have made some efforts to paint as he created an accomplished painting in 1959, his first known serious painting. At least the painters can feel a pride in the exhibition of their indigenous identity rather than in displaying a metal plate announcing an inferior and laughable European name. For many years he was Australia's most famous Aboriginal artist - the Hermannsburg camel-boy who had taken up watercolours and won acclaim in the white man's world. As Bardon observed on arrival at Papunya in 1971, of the four tribal groups brought together there, the Aranda had been detribalised and soured at the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission, and that the white man had made them earn a discontent and misery, for they had learned all the whitefella-ways, and about money, and how something or someone did not have any full worth or place because of money and other concerns (Bardon 2004 p.7). The cruel irony is that the size of the Australian indigenous art industry is now estimated at far beyond $100 million a year (Owens 2005 p.20). Bardon also observed that traditional sand mosaics were group art, and that painters often owned only part of a subject or story, remaining strictly within their own totems or signs (Bardon 2004 p.11, 31). One of two reproductions by Albert Namatjira which were stolen from the Araluen Arts Centre in the Northern Territory in 2008. AHR is an Open Access publication A senior member of the Namatjira family has died in Alice Springs less than a week after a deal, brokered by businessman Dick Smith, ended the protracted dispute over the copyright estate of renowned painter Albert Namatjira. Christine was recently selected for a 2008 Asialink residency in India, following publication ofa biography, Jiddu Krishnamurti: World Philosopher. Two years later, in 1956, he accompanied his father to Sydney when they stayed at the home of film maker Frank Clune and his wife. Strehlow, TGH 1951 Foreword Modern Australian Aboriginal Art (Battarbee, Rex) Angus & Robertson London. Albert Namatjira died of heart disease on August 8th, 1959. On 30 June 1966 Keith was at Number 2 Artists Camp Alice Springs. Although the sentence was commuted, he never recovered, and he died the following year. According to art curator, Wally Caruana, As a consequence, a renascence of ritual activity occurred to show all people the resilience of Aboriginal culture (1998: p.3). An appeal, fought to the high court, reduced the sentence to three months, which Namatjira served, a bewildered and broken man. A pale blue sky and two tone cobalt blue distant hills with muted mid-ground hills provide the backdrop for the harsh scene. The National Portrait Gallery is an Australian Government Agency, Search the website for more mentions of Rubina Namatjira. Born in 1902 #39. . An indication of Namatjiras admiration for Violet is to be found in his naming one of his children after her (Hoorn 1999: pp.99, 102,103). After taking up painting aged 33, pioneering artist Albert Namatjira shaped indigenous Australian art forever. They almost always depicted a scene or involvement of shapes from a position above the depicted earth, this seeming to allow them to write their apparently realistic forms. His first two exhibitions sold out, which is a massive thing for any new artist earning him a place in the living rooms of everyday Australians.. The viewer can see a twin-peaked iconic hill at right of mid-distance, but the country to the left is screened off from sight by a screen of fantasy red patterned rocks and the foliage of small trees. In 2011, Kumantjai Lankin performed silently in the eponymous stage production about her grandfather's life exerting a gentle, sage-like presence as she watched the story unfold night after night. The plain and dot screen are downbeat. Groups The sum is estimated to equal the value of the copyright estate. His father, Namatjira, born near Ormiston Gorge, was a Paltara man, and his mother, Ljukuta, born near Palm Valley, was a Mbitjana woman. Australian Geographic acknowledges the First Nations people of Australia as traditional custodians, and pay our respects to Elders past and present, and their stories and journeys that have lead us to where we are today. According to the former Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia, Daniel Thomas, Rubina Namatjira returned to Hermannsburg where she lived with her daughter Maisie until her death in 1974, when Rubina, grief-stricken, applied a psychological force and 'sang' herself to death within weeks. Prominent lemon plain. A gap in the low screen invites the viewer to contemplate a walk into the scene on a smooth orange-red earth area. $ 265.00. Strehlow recalls the Aranda watching Murch and other painters intently and with evident fascination (1951: p.6).3. Records held by the Strehlow Research Centre in Alice Springs (Mparntwe) show that from very early on the anthropologist was impressed by Namatjiras artworks. He is buried at the Memorial Cemetery, Memorial Drive Alice Springs. The style of the black tree and the prominent clouds may have been influenced by Kaapa Tjampitjinpa, or vice versa. In 1994, led by his granddaughter Elaine, members of the Hermannsburg Potters. Shortly afterwards, while he was playing with a rifle at Albert's . At least one of the leading Arnhem Land artists, Ginger Riley Mundiwalawala, as a young stockman had met Namatjira, the meeting said to be a turning point in the life of the artist-to-be (Kemerre Perkins 2004, p.15). Remarkably, Namatjira greeted his mentor with three newly-finished landscape pieces, and a promise to create more. Namatjira himself appears relaxed with one hand on his waist. So much of Namatjiras art can now be partially understood through our later knowledge of indigenous art being bound inextricably with indigenous artists reverence for the earth. It was around December 1950 that forgeries of Albert Namatjira's works began to appear in Melbourne and Adelaide, and the first article on forged Albert Namatjira's works in Adelaide appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald December 17, 1950, p.1 under the heading 'Forged copies of Namatjira'. Watercolour on paperboard This image of a renaissance is consistent with an artwork by Rover Thomas, Cyclone Tracy, painted in 1991. Their three children, two boys and a girl were also baptised at this . He was well-known for his watercolors, which depicted the landscape of the Australian Outback. Namatjira was a forerunner in the education of white Australians about the deep spiritual connection between people and the land, a sacred wisdom tradition given him by his forebears and represented through his landscape painting. 8. He appealed in the High Court and the sentence was downgraded to two months of separation on the nearbyPapunya settlement. est. Its been reported that Namatjira had received only two months tuition in painting, when the watercolourist Rex Battarbee visited his desert country in 1936. We respectfully advise that this site includes works by, images of, names of, voices of and references to deceased people. Strehlow wrote that in his best paintings Namatjira had put on record the beauty and the colour of Central Australia with a warmth that proclaims his deep love for his homeland (Strehlow 1951 p.6). The Public Trustee was empowered to administer the estate and to oversee the controversial 1983 sale. In 1958 he was charged with supplying alcohol to an Aboriginal, after a woman in his camp was killed in a drunken fight. Watercolour on paperboard From 1928 on, several radical women artists made excursions to the Centre. We might pause to give thanks that our powerful red earth has been represented so respectfully by all the environmentalist indigenous desert painters with Albert Namatjira acknowledged as first among a great history of equals. Aboriginal artist who pioneered contemporary Indigenous Australian art. Albert Namatjira: first Aboriginal Australian citizen, recipient of the Queen's Coronation Medal, first Aboriginal subject of the winner of the Archibald Prize, most famous artist in Australia, charged with supplying alcohol to members of his extended family. Its been argued that it was Jessie Trail and Violet Teague who provided the initial examples of first-hand European art as a primary influence on Albert on his path as a Western painter. Recognising this, from about the time of his first solo exhibition in Melbourne in 1938, Albert took a second name, that of his father Namatjira, and thereafter he carried in this name and identity conflicting European and indigenous cultural values.5. Kumantjai L Namatjira Lankin, the matriarch of the Namatjira family and a faithful exponent of the Hermannsburg watercolour style, has been hailed as "a tireless advocate" for the return of her grandfather's copyright. Then in 1934 Battarbee returned, and Namatjira is reported to have shown an interest in painting, which Battarbee encouraged. Now we're losing family," Ms Pannka said last week. 1969 They apparently knew each other with personal and respectful warmth. The former trustee, John Flynn, has since admitted that was an error on his part. Namatjira's work often calls on Australia's colonial history, with recurring references to . The return of the artist's copyright marked the end of a fight spanning decades, which has taken an emotional toll on the Namatjira family. Permalink. At the time, reproductions of her grandfather's work could not be used without the permission of the then-copyright owners. Red rocks look animate. His western style landscapes - different to traditional Aboriginal art, made him famous. 1970-74 Cook's Dinner Party (2015) Cook's Dinner Party was the winner of the John Fries award in 2015. They settled in Hermannsburg, and over the next two decades Rubina gave birth to seven more children . Strehlow, TGH 1966 Centralian Art address at exhibition at Battarbee Centralian Arts, Adelaide Festival of Arts 11 March. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are warned that this website contains images of deceased persons. Albert Namatjira's Death - Cause and Date Born (Birthday) Jul 28, 1902 Death Date August 8, 1959 Age of Death 57 years Cause of Death Pneumonia Profession Painter The painter Albert Namatjira died at the age of 57. (The following article is the basis for a chapter in Green Power: Environmentalists who have changed the face of Australia published by Lothian/Hachette Livre. (The location is apparently in the Belt Range south of Papunya). In his glorious painting of 1959 he honoured his fathers achievement in his fathers style. Albert Namatjira (born Elea Namatjira; 28 July 1902 - 8 August 1959) was an Arrernte painter from the MacDonnell Ranges in Central Australia, widely considered one of the greatest and most influential Australian artists.As a pioneer of contemporary Indigenous Australian art, he was arguably one of the most famous Indigenous Australians of his generation. Other Titles Head of an old Aborigine (possibly a relative of Albert Namatjira) Portrait of an old Aborigine, Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory . Maurice Namatjira, who was born in March 1939 immediately after Albert's first solo exhibition in Melbourne in December 1938, was only 19 years old when Kevin was born at Hermannsburg in December 1958. 2. Namatjira's death and legacy. There is strange and dark foliage on the silhouette tree. Art curator, Hetti Kemerre Perkins maintains that Albert Namatjira also provided a profound influence on the first generation of Papunya painters, who saw in his example a way out of the poverty cycle of fringe dweller existence (2004 p.15). Geometric pale crimson rocks based on parallel, probably nature based patterns. Line and blob trees with fine black trunks on front plain. [similar commented to John Kean 22.3.15]. The viewer is invited to imagine wandering freely. A grandson, Kevin Namatjira, told ABC TV, Were sorry for our grandfather, you know. The name of the tribe was originally also spelt Arunta. Feb. 22, 2021. Albert Namatjira ( 28 July 1902 - 1959 ), born Elea Namatjira is an Australian Aborigine artist of the Arrernte (Aranda) tribe. It is touching that Kaapa Tjampitjinpa named his son Keith. He took a variety of jobs as a young man, including blacksmith, stockman, carpenter and cameleer. White of trunks is unpainted paper. The press is howling. Already he saw his lifes work connected with the traditional knowledge of indigenous people. I want to learn all I can from the old men. Christine Williams is the author of four biographical works. Albert Namatjira: his birthday, what he did before fame, his family life, fun trivia facts, popularity rankings, and more. 1960-69 He and his wife, Rubina, were granted citizenship in 1957, an entitlement not extended to all Aboriginal people until 1967. Prints. Rubina died in 1974 and is buried at Hermannsburg. Namatjira story. This is the earliest painting by Keith found in this research. Namatjira was the name of his totem (ant-eater) and was taken as a surname mainly for legal reasons. Her father was Wapiti, an Elder from Merini in Kukatja Country in the Northern Territory. BDC-KthN-03. Keith was not a prolific painter and, sadly, died young. Meanwhile he had a growing family a wife and eight children for which he had to trade physical labour for food, clothing, shelter and lessons at the Mission school. The muted greys of the plain and the dotting suggest a down-beat attitude. Gender: Male. His first two exhibitions in 1938 in Melbourne and Adelaide sold out. Keith was a respectful man and a realist. The emotional mindset of this expressive scene is quite unsettled. Keith was exposed intimately to the extremes of his fathers fame and honour in his formative teen years. Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) was the first Australian Aboriginal artist to receive national acclaim from the white community. Low orange ground cover each side rounded. Black, red and yellow line work on big tree, rocks and mid ground. Elea Namatjira was a full-blooded member of the Western Aranda (Arunta) tribe, and his birth was registered at the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission on July 28, 1902. . 7. BDC-KthN-10. An appeal, fought to the high court, reduced the sentence to three months, which Namatjira served, a bewildered and broken man. Speaking before Kumantjai's death, her cousin Gloria Pannka told RN's Awaye! Namatjira is said to have decorated a boomerang in pokerwork depicting the scene of men at work laying water pipes. In 1966 Strehlow said that thirty years before even the most intelligent aboriginal adults had been proclaimed by an American professor of psychology to have a mental age of only 12 years or less, firm beliefs that now seemed almost antediluvian (1966: p.2). He respectfully refrained from using too much detail in this country to which he had no traditional entitlement. Quote attributed to MQB Chairman and Managing Director, Stphane Martin (Owens 2005). Red totemic hills may be travelling to left. Axel Poignant. The big black tree has almost lost its battle to survive. The painter Albert Namatjira died at the age of 57. Thomas, Daniel 1986 Albert Namatjira and the Worlds of Art Albert Namatjira The Life and Work of an Australian Painter Macmillan Melbourne. Amadio, Nadine (ed.) Keiths wife and children were at Hermannsburg (as were the families of Gabriel and Benjamin. The Namatjira Legacy Trust, of which Ms Pannka is also a board member, must now come to terms with the management of the artist's copyright. 1986, Albert Namatjira The Life and Work of an Australian Painter Macmillan Melbourne. On each side of the foreground animate crimson tall rocks seem to blinker the view. 35 x 25 cm, Beverley Castleman Collection But he also succeeded in the hardest place: the market, says Judith. Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 - 8 August 1959), born Elea Namatjira, was an Australian artist. White of trunk is unpainted paper. Watercolour on paper This flat area of lemon with dotting was a characteristic which Keith developed further in his career. It wasnt until Albert was in his late 20s that he met western artist Rex Battarbee, who ran a small exhibition of his own watercolours in Hermannsburg in 1936. Thus, violating the law of his people by marrying outside the classificatory kinship system. He gave up painting and died in 1959, within four months of his release. The following year Violet undertook the trip with Una from Melbourne to Hermannsburg in a rented Studebaker complete with driver, camping along the way. Nonetheless about 20 years after his first exhibitions he was being mobbed by autograph hunters in Sydney: Crowds surged around him, many pushing notepads and paper at him, until the police reached him and escorted him to safety, reported New South Wales Barrier Miner in 1954. International accolades also flowed: Queen Elizabeth II awarded him a coronation medal in 1953. For example in 1946 thirty-six of his forty-one works in a solo exhibition in Adelaide were sold within half an hour of opening, at respectable prices of up to forty guineas each. The tree and foreground are upbeat along with the red outcrops, which are being partly screened by dots. Keith was born when his father Albert Namatjira was 35 years old and his mother Rubina was about 34 years old. But his health suffered from grief over several deaths in his family, as well as white-mans food and entrenched government racism. Alice Springs town camps had attractions for the Hermannsburg artists. He was a Western Arrernte man, an Indigenous Australian of the Western MacDonnell Ranges area. This glorious painting from the sad year of Alberts imprisonment at Papunya and death at Alice Springs hospital seems to celebrate Alberts life and work and perhaps to assert Keiths own ability to paint like Albert. A few years after Albert's death in 1959, a house was built for Rubina from some of the proceeds of his paintings in Hermannsburg. [Commented to John Kean 22.3.15]. According to Geoffrey Bardon, Keith lived in Papunya at the time the Western Desert Painting movement commenced and had declined to join the traditional artists (apparently because he felt less traditional than the Papunya artists). Keith lived through the elders objections of 1972 and 1974 about too much being revealed. Keith married a Loritja woman, Lilly Namatjira Tjantjingu, born 1936. Albert Namatjira (28 July 1902 - 8 August 1959) was a Western Arrernte-speaking Aboriginal artist from the MacDonnell Ranges, west of Alice Springs in Central Australia. Catalog No: 1147-134-17-12/20. His wife, five sons and one of his daughters survived him. 33.5 x 51.5 cm, Beverley Castleman Collection Strehlow refers to Murch, Battarbee, Gardner and Rowell as painters ushering in a new era by translating familiar landscape and familiar native figures on to paper and canvas even though he gives most credit to Battarbee in assisting the first aboriginal painters while they were striving to gain technical mastery over their medium (Strehlow 1951 p.7). Copyright is due to expire in 2009. Mid-20th century, artist Albert Namatjira was able to bring into the lounge rooms of capital city dwellers the evocative landscape of Central Australia through the canny depiction of his sacred country. Papunya was declared a prison for the purpose. The article from an unidentified newspaper dated 12 August 1950 is held by the Strehlow Research Centre. https://hermannsburg.com.au/stories/hermannsburg-potters ) produced a terracotta mural headstone for his grave. [Commented to John Kean 22.3.15]No pathway for the viewer is suggested. In 1935 Namatjira created what he later said was his first watercolour, The Fleeing Kangaroo, which he gave to a Lutheran Mission administrator. Oscar and Maisie, Ilkalita converted to Christianity, taking the name Rubina. Albert Namatjira died in 1959. Lemon/green backlights big tree foliage. (Oscar NAM-0214, Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, 1969). Two years later, in 1956, he accompanied his father to Sydney when they stayed at the home of film maker Frank Clune and his wife. (. The National Portrait Gallery acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia and recognises the continuing connection to lands, waters and communities. After the success of his first exhibition in 1938, other members of the Arrernte people in the Hermannsburg Mission followed his lead. Rubina died in 1974, following the death of her one remaining daughter Maisie, leaving Oscar, Ewald, Keith and Maurice of her children to outlive her, though by only 3 and 5 years in the case of the last two of her sons. Remembering the Indigenous resistance fighter determined to maintain Aboriginal traditions by resisting British rule. As their marriage was forbidden tribally, Ilkalita and Albert eloped in 1919. Family members of world-renowned water colourist Albert Namatjira have welcomed an undisclosed landmark compensation sum from the Northern Territory government over the "unjust" sale of copyright to Namatjira's works of art in 1983. Occupations: artist. It was common tradition to share good fortune with family, which Albert did by providing alcohol, a prohibited act. Mr Watson said the agreement with Legend Press was signed three weeks after Namatjira was exempted from the register of wards in the Northern Territory and granted citizenship. Copyright 2023 /The Celebrity Deaths.com/All Rights Reserved. Finally Keith reflected on a social and cultural dissonance between Hermannsburg and Papunya, perhaps himself and Papunya. Albert Namatjira Heavitree Gap, Ngurratjuta Collection, Alice Springs Albert Namatjira is one of Australia's great artists, and perhaps the best known Aboriginal painter. From his detribalised perspective he painted appearance of the totemic landscape without saying too much. BDC-KthN-11. He gave up painting and died in 1959, within four months of his release. Lenie now paints with Ngurratjuta Many Hands Art Centre, passionately telling the . Albert Namatjira and his wife Rubina, Macdonnell Ranges, Northern Territory 1946 printed 1981 Artist Axel Poignant England, Australia, England 12 Dec 1906 - 05 Feb 1986 Details Dates 1946 printed 1981 Media category Photograph Materials used gelatin silver photograph Dimensions 45.4 x 35.3 cm image; 50.6 x 40.4 cm sheet He was the first aboriginal person who got Australian citizenship in 1957. AEST = Australian Eastern Standard Time which is 10 hours ahead of GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), abc.net.au/news/kumantjai-lankin-albert-namatjira-relative-dies/9084234, Get breaking news alerts directly to your phone with our app, Image: Courtesy of Strehlow Research Centre, Help keep family & friends informed by sharing this article, 'We are not the same, that's why you do not understand': An interview with a mother accused of a terrible crime, 'I just sit here and chill now': Tasha used to hide in her tent when pedestrians passed by, Man shot dead outside martial arts gym in Sydney's west, 'At what point do you put people's lives at risk? The use of images of works of art reproduced on this website and all other content may be restricted under the Australian Copyright Act 1968 (Cth). The big tree is a Hermannsburg School type of screen; dots are a symbolic Papunya screen. BDC-KthN-05. A member of the Western Arrernte people, Namatjira was born and raised at the Hermannsburg Lutheran Mission outside Alice Springs. Namatjira and Rubina had five children and three daughters together. In 1922 Strehlow left to study English literature and linguistics at Adelaide University but he returned to the mission after graduation in 1932. Perhaps Keith was hinting that sacred caves and tjurunga may be in the red cliffs. Mackenzie, Andrew 2000 www.artistsfootsteps.com/html/Namatjira_biography.htm accessed 12 August 2005. He was raised in a mission away from his family where he grew up in accordance to western style. Since his death Namatjiras works have catapulted in price, selling for up to several hundred thousand dollars today. The Australian Financial Review 30 June. He denied the charge and fought the sentence he received in both the Supreme Court and the High Court. Albert Namatjira was an Australian painter renowned for his portrayal of Australian bush. BDC-KthN-09. As Albert and Rubina's youngest son, Maurice learnt to paint by observing his father and four . Here is all you want to know, and more! ALBERT NAMATJIRA (1902-1959) Elea Namatjira was an aborigine, brought up in the outback of the Northern Territ'ry. We pay our respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and to Elders past and present. Disaster struck when in 1958 and 1959 he was exposed to the distress of his fathers dramatic trial for supplying alcohol to an Aborigine, imprisonment at Papunya and death in Alice Springs hospital. Writer Colin Simpson had said something similar back in 1950: Albert Namatjira is a signpost on the road to a new understanding by us of the capacities of the aboriginal Australian.7 But Coombs went further. Minister Paul Hasluck insisted that if Albert was imprisoned, he would serve the term not behind bars in Alice Springs Prison, but in his own country in the open. He continued to include parallels to underpin the design. 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