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Mike Brown and Liz Land in Kitchen, 1993
Francis Reiss
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2004
'This is our land', 2006
by Hari Ho
Image
Prime Minister Gough Whitlam pours soil into the hand of traditional land owner Vincent Lingiari, 1975
Mervyn Bishop
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
Purchased 2000
Zara, 18, Babinda, FNQ. From the series 'The Land of Oz', 2018
by Lee Grant
Image
David Gulpilil, Arnhem Land, 1981 (printed 2000)
David Moore
Portrait, type C photograph on paper
The series 'David Moore: From Face to Face' was acquired as a gift of the artist and with financial assistance from Timothy Fairfax AC and L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2001
The fat of the land
Magazine article by Dr Sarah Engledow, 2009
Sir Sidney Kidman (1857-1935) is inscribed in Australian legend as the ‘Cattle King’.
In another land
Geoff Harvey
Image
![Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land](/files/1/8/b/4/i10111-sl.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land")
![Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land](/files/1/8/b/4/i10111-ths.jpg "Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land")
Woureddy [Wurati], an Aboriginal Chief of Van Diemen's Land, 1835
Benjamin Law
Portrait, cast plaster, painted
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2010
![Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land](/files/1/8/5/e/i8535-sl.jpg "Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land")
![Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land](/files/1/8/5/e/i8535-ths.jpg "Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land")
Truggernana [Trukanini], a native of southern part of V.D. Land, 1835
Benjamin Duterrau
Portrait, etching, printed in black ink from one copper plate on paper
Purchased with funds provided by The Ian Potter Foundation 2009
Tracey Moffatt filming early land rights march, c. 1980
Elaine Pelot-Syron
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Collection: National Portrait Gallery
Purchased 2011
Bart Willoughby (No Fixed Address) at 'The National Land Rights Action' march, 1982
Juno Gemes
Portrait, gelatin silver photograph on paper
Gift of the artist 2021. Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program.
Justin Shoulder
Deborah Kelly
Image
Penny Tweedie
Biography
Aboriginal people and their culture have been the focus of much of Penny Tweedie's photography during the last period of her career.
47 portraits in the collection
Thomas James Lempriere
Biography
Thomas Lempriere came to Tasmania in 1822, received a land grant and became a founding shareholder of the Bank of Van Diemen's Land.
1 portrait in the collection
Bushwalk
Matthew Abbott
Image
Martha Sarah Butler
Biography
Edward Paine Butler (1811-1849), lawyer, and his wife Martha Sarah Butler (née Asprey, 1811-1864), arrived in Van Diemen's Land in 1835.
1 portrait in the collection