Book review: Jennifer Sanders (ed), ‘Collecting for the Nation, The Australiana Fund’.


John Wade

Australiana, Vol 39 no 4, November 2017

... Tamie Fraser was one of the first to realise the same could be done here to reflect our own culture and history. In 1978, she encouraged the establishment of The Australiana Fund (not to be confused with the Australiana Society, established in the same year), with the aim of lending appropriate examples of Australian historical and contemporary artworks to the four official residences – Government House (Yarralumla) and The Lodge in Canberra, Kirribilli House and Admiralty House in Sydney.

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