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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Darwin Artist Harold Thomas Wins National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award
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'Tribal Abductions, a large-scale acrylic piece, depicts the removal by white authorities of Aboriginal children from a mother who is fighting to keep them.'

'Mr Thomas, a Luritja and Wambai man who is also known for his 1971 design of the Australian Aboriginal flag, was taken from his family at the age of seven. ...'

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