In the Perth Festival exhibitions brochure, artistic director Anna Reece noted that the city is “uniquely positioned in relation to Southeast Asia considering proximity and shared time zones”. ...

More than a half million Aboriginals currently live in Australia, less than 3 percent of the population. Few have learned to perform an Aboriginal dance or hunt with a spear. Many anthropologists ...

The Indigenous people of Australia have had an artistic tradition ... in which women gathered in song and dance, and painted their upper bodies in patterns reflecting Alhalker culture.