The recent passing away of a significant number of senior Aboriginal artists has raised concern about the future of Aboriginal art. This, together with reports of a market flooded with second-rate work and a lingering anxiety that the popularity of Aboriginal art may have run its course animates my research on the inter-generational shift in the production and market for Aboriginal art.

This seminar discusses the recent Senate inquiry into the Indigenous visual arts and craft sector and examines what progress, if any, has been made since the Senate released its report in June 2007. Providing the most recent overview of the sector, the recommendations of the Senate's report Indigenous Art - Securing the Future will be compared with those of previous reports in an attempt to determine the effectiveness of such inquiries on government policy and initiatives.