Few non-Australians are even aware that the 26-year-old Charles visited the continent in early 1836 on his round-the-world voyage in the HMSBeagle. The fresh-faced Cambridge grad had been invited on theBeaglebecause of his passion for natural history, and when he arrived in Australia, after...
[…] This kind of feeling is not uncommon with Aboriginals. A sixth sense, the white men call it. When I was younger and closer to the bush I had it much more strongly. [..] But the white man has rubbed across my brain and these sensitive things have gone. Now we are away from...
we have relatively large bodies and invest heavily in a small number of offspring that take a long time to mature. Though humans are similar in size to chimpanzees
Aboriginal people are believed to have lived in Australia for over 65,000 years and have the world’s oldest continuing culture. Their deep connections to country, family and community have remained strong despite the impact of colonisation on individual and collective health and wellbeing [1,2]...