Comedian named cultural ambassador of Australian National Museum

Trinca said people-to-people connections can become the bedrock of strong relationships and cultural exchanges can promote people-to-people links.

"Through the long history of having worked with China, taking our first exhibition to China in 2002, followed by other works that we've been engaged in with our Chinese colleagues through agencies, museums and galleries, we always found those relationships are strong, enduring and constant," he said in an interview with Xinhua.

"That's a signal when people come together and speak openly about what matters to be human, what matters to be living in their countries, how they think about their daily lives and the past, tradition, the stories they use to reach to their past, I think that becomes something that sticks us together and brings our peoples together."

"And ultimately, if we have cultural understanding of each other and I think that deepens and broadens the basis upon which all parts of the relationship can flourish."

NMA opened its doors to the public in 2001 in Australia's capital city Canberra. With over 2,000 works of art on bark, the museum holds the world's largest and richest collection of bark paintings.