AUDIO: Hear Bill Gammage on Aboriginal Land Management
Historian pays tribute to Aboriginal land management http://caama.com.au/historian-pays-tribute-to-aboriginal-land-management 13 Aug 13, Historian and adjunct professor in the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University (ANU), Bill Gammage, was in Alice Springs to delivery a presentation at the desertSMART EcoFair.
Author of The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia, a book which challenges the myth that pre-settlement Australia was an untamed wilderness, says the claim has nothing to do with what Aboriginal people know now. It is this knowledge that they should be allowed to share with others.
“And it’s what they (Aboriginal people) know now, that they can teach us, which will let us show more respect and let Aboriginal people express all the skills that they have for managing country, and surely we need it.”
Speaking with CAAMA Radio Professor Gammage says that Australia is already a world leader in species extinction and Aboriginal people are the way of the future by sharing their knowledge they’ve acquired over thousands of years.
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