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Sitting on a sunbeam - Pink Cockatoo by Fiona Smith, Image 3.
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  • Sitting on a sunbeam - Pink Cockatoo
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  • 60 x 50 x 0 cm
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This is a wonderful Pink Cockatoo, astride a 1940s model 7 Sunbeam Mixmaster - just like the one my mother used to make my favourite chocolate cake. The bird is an Australian favourite, previously known as a Major Mitchell. The name was changed in recognition that Sir Thomas Mitchell, the surveyor general of New South Wales from 1828 to 1855, was in fact responsible for a massacre of indigenous Kureinji and Barkindji people on the banks of the Murray River.

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