Dharug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation -DCAC

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Dharug Custodian Aboriginal Corporation -DCAC We are a not for profit organisation that has been active in Western Sydney for over 40 years- sharing our culture and providing community support.

27/10/2026
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22/10/2026

To all of the people now hanging out fruit for the flying-foxes, you are making a real difference to the survival of this critically important species. If you are able, please continue for a while yet as the current heavy rain is likely to wash the nectar from the flowers.
To all of the people donating, sending us love, we thank you too. You are making a real difference in keeping us going.

21/10/2026

Leanne Tobin's 'Clean, Clad and Courteous,' was a public art project made in response to, and at the site of, the Blacktown Native Institution—a residential school that, between 1823-1829, institutionalised young Aboriginal and Maori children who had been taken away from their families.

Here, Tobin re-imagines these children as larger-than-life paper doll chain figures. Their missing mouths allude to their being silenced; overwritten—literally—by the Native Institution's 'Rules and Regulations' that Tobin has pasted onto their 'skin,' symbolising the imposition of colonial ways onto the children.

'Clean, Clad and Courteous' was originally made for C3West's Blacktown Native Institution project, a collaboration between Blacktown Arts Centre, the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, and UrbanGrowth NSW. The title, "Clean, Clad and Courteous," is in reference to J.J. Fletcher's 1989 'Clean, Clad and Courteous: A History of Aboriginal Education in New South Wales,' the alliterative criterion "bluntly encapsulating some of colonial Australia's key goals in Aboriginal education," as then-C3West Senior Curator Anne Loxley writes.

'Clean, Clad and Courteous' is currently on display in the Heritage Gardens at Lewers as part of Leanne Tobin's major solo exhibition, 'Ngalawan: We Live. We Remain.' which continues until Sunday 1 November, open daily from 10am-4pm.

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Leanne Tobin, 'Clean, Clad and Courteous,' 2015, installation view in 'Ngalawan: We Live. We Remain.' at Lewers: Penrith Regional Gallery, 2026. Photography: Maja Baska.

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Windsor, NSW
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