65,000 Years of Australian Art edited by Marcia Langton and Judith Ryan

65,000 Years of Australian Art edited by Marcia Langton and Judith Ryan65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art stares into the dark heart of Australia's brutal colonial history and offers new insights into the first art of this country. Long before Britain's invasion of Australia in 1788, First Peoples' cultural and design traditions flourished for thousands of generations. Their art shaped the continent as we know it today and the societies that thrived here; but these continuing artistic practices and new art

Then Mel comes face-to-face with a mighty grizzly

complex and troubled relationship between the Indigenous people of Australia and the University of Melbourne

Fetchers have always been hunted by the Devouts for preserving the old ways

Two school buses just hanging in space

cannot survive

But as a massive storm approaches

Dead for more than a century

his cat waiting for him when he comes home

50 kilometres

and as he helps Michael breathe life into his tiny sister

And a father takes form from fire

Starting with the universe itself