Aboriginal art scam | 60 Minutes Australia
1,675For millions of tourists visiting Australia the boomerang and the didgeridoo are iconic - and highly sought after - symbols of our indigenous culture. Which makes what 60 MINUTES reveals as embarrassing as it is outrageous. Most didgeridoos and boomerangs are now made in Indonesia, Bali specifically, not here in Australia. And it's not because there's a large expatriate aboriginal community living up there. It's all about money. Indonesian workers can churn out cheap copies of our artefacts by the shipload, and that's very attractive for the businesses involved, which are happy to disregard forty thousand years of culture in the pursuit of cashing in on gullible tourists (2018).
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