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Richard Phillips (Dick Blair)
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Richard was one of the first coordinators for Aboriginal Housing and helped establish ‘The Block’ based at Redfern, an important community for Aboriginal people to live and socialise in inner Sydney.

Published 28 April 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders portrait
Esme Timbery
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Born on Hill 60 in Port Kembla in 1931, Esme is an artist and Bidjigal woman. She has been collecting shells since the age of five at La Perouse where she lives.

Published 28 April 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders portrait
Evonne Phillips
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Evonne Phillips was an Eora woman and respected Elder in the Block at Redfern. Evonne was a founding member of the Aboriginal Legal Service, Children Service and Medical Centre.

Published 28 April 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders portrait
Joyce Ingram
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/joyce-ingram/

Joyce was an original resident of the first urban land grant from the Whitlam Government to the Aboriginal Housing Company, the land was later known as The Block in Redfern. The film My Home The Block featured Joyce’s struggles to help her community.

Published 28 April 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders portrait
Millie Ingram
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/millie-ingram/

Millie Ingram is a Wiradjuri woman born and raised on Erambie Mission, Central NSW. She has worked in Aboriginal affairs both at a community level and in government.

Published 28 April 2020

First Nations Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Elders portrait
Hope
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/hope-campbell/

I get teased a lot. I would like to grow up and help other people, because I don’t want them to go through the same thing I have.

Published 06 August 2020

First Nations holograph unfinished business
Honorary Pom
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-honorary-pom/

They could tell you how many sheep there were in Australia, they could tell you how many cattle. Yet they couldn’t tell you how many Aboriginals there were, because we weren’t allowed to vote.

Published 06 August 2020

First Nations holograph photography
Freshwater Saltwater
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-freshawater-saltwater/

Kay Sadler was unaware that she was Aboriginal until her early twenties, making her emotional journey to connect to culture as painful as her physical pain from Marfans Syndrome.

Published 06 August 2020

First Nations holograph photography
Maralinga
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-maralinga/

In the 1950s there was British Government and the Australian Government made an agreement to have bomb testing in Australia. Not far from here. I was only a little kid.

Published 06 August 2020

First Nations holograph photography unfinished business
Sound of Silence
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-sound-of-silence/

I didn’t want to accept the fact that I was deaf, ’cause I wanted to be a hearing person so I could fit in with their world.

Published 06 August 2020

First Nations holograph photography unfinished business

Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru

Come face-to-face with one of the most remarkable gold collections to ever tour the globe in the immersive exhibition, Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru and add-on VR experience.

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Future Now

Step into Future Now, an Australian Museum exhibition about sustainability and be inspired by practical and innovative ways to build a more sustainable future.

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Burra

Be transported on an immersive journey through the eyes of burra (eel) in the Australian Museum’s learning and play space.

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Minerals

Be dazzled by over 1800 spectacular rocks and minerals in our new Minerals Gallery.

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Relics

Discover LEGO^® worlds thriving within treasured objects from the past at RELICS. In a LEGO^® exhibition unlike any other, adults and children alike will be mesmerised by these magical, minifigure civilisations.

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Opens August 2025

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Richard Phillips (Dick Blair)
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/richard-phillips/

Esme Timbery
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/esme-timbery/

Evonne Phillips
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/evonne-phillips/

Joyce Ingram
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/joyce-ingram/

Millie Ingram
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/sydney-elders/millie-ingram/

Hope
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/hope-campbell/

Honorary Pom
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-honorary-pom/

Freshwater Saltwater
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-freshawater-saltwater/

Maralinga
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-maralinga/

Sound of Silence
https://australian.museum/learn/first-nations/unfinished-business/unfinished-business-sound-of-silence/

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Future Now

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