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Bill Gammage on the Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines Made Australia

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Bill Gammage AM is an Australian academic historian. In this Lunchbox/Soapbox presentation, he discusses the mistaken belief that Aboriginal Australians were passive occupiers of the land before European settlement, noting their holistic sense of connection with their environment, and careful use of fire to rejuvenate landscapes and manipulate the movement of fauna.

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08 Nov 2011

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I am guessing Gammage is the last of the 'Enlargeners', for sure.

Pat B.
10 November at 02:34PM

Yes, we had much to learn but were not ready for it . . . are we yet ?

Christine jordan
28 November at 01:07PM

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