Aboriginal Display at the Brisbane Exhibition, 1914. State Library of Queensland December 21, 2023 A brief look at the long history of First Nations fashion design in Australia Treena Clark, University of Technology Sydney First Nations people have been making and crafting clothes and accessories for millennia, and for international exhibitions for hundreds of years.
Labor Senator Jana Stewart at the 2023 Midwinter Ball. AAP Image/Lukas Coch September 5, 2023 From badges to ball gowns: how fashion took centre-stage in the 1967 and 2023 referendums Treena Clark, University of Technology Sydney and Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney It would have amazed campaigners from 1967 to see people today wearing outfits that overtly describe the movement.
AAP Image/Esther Linder August 16, 2023 ‘The first designers and models of this world’: attending the 2023 National Indigenous Fashion Awards Peter McNeil, University of Technology Sydney and Treena Clark, University of Technology Sydney People in the First Nations fashion industry see their work contributing to cultural tradition, economics and cultural sustainability, and blak pride and storytelling.