Desert Dreams

Aboriginal Culture and Arts

  • Kangaroo Dreaming

    A wild leap of my life story into a period beginning in the early 1980’s, some 30 years later – which encompasses some dramatic changes. These changes lead inevitably to my future association with Aboriginal people and their culture. This… Continue reading

  • History of the Western Desert Art Movement

    In 1971, a young school teacher named Geoff Bardon arrived at a remote Government settlement north-west of Alice Springs, called Papunya. Papunya was established to enable government agencies to provide essential services to various language groups of Aboriginal people, increasingly… Continue reading

  • Lake Mungo

    Sometime in the late seventies or early eighties, I saw a television program about the discovery of some human remains, revealed by a relentless desert wind blowing over ancient sand dunes fringing a lake which had last seen water some… Continue reading

  • Terra Nullius; The Lie of the Land

    Australia is fighting not only the most stupid and manipulative war in history in Iraq, but has its own internal war going on, known as the history war. In this war, eminent scholars who choose to face the sordid past… Continue reading