- Target:
- Senate Inquiry into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector.
- Region:
- Australia
The ACCC has accepted the term "Aboriginal Style" to describe non-authentic aboriginal product. It is estimated that about 90% of product sold in retail as Aboriginal product or "Aboriginal Style" is non-authentic product. Quite often this product is imported into Australia.
This confusion in the marketplace undermines the integrity of authentic Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander products, threatens the viability of genuine retailers and greatly impinges on the incomes of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
The ban of imports of Aboriginal product and the abolition of the term "Aboriginal Style" will decrease the amount of non-authentic Aboriginal product and greatly increase the opportunities for authentic Aboriginal product to enter the marketplace. In turn, economic returns from Aboriginal products should flow to Aboriginal and Torres Strait people. It will increase consumer confidence and restore integrity in authentic Aboriginal product
We the undersigned believe the use of the term "Aboriginal Style" as a means to describe non-authentic or imported Indigenous artefacts, artworks or souvenirs is misleading and deceptive.
We the undersigned support the abolition of the term "Aboriginal Style".
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The Abolition of term "Aboriginal Style" petition to Senate Inquiry into Australia's Indigenous visual arts and craft sector. was written by Creative Economy Pty Ltd and is in the category Culture at GoPetition.