ABSTRACT
An emerging and fresh perspective on Australian Aboriginal and indigenous culture challenges the long-established and conventional view that they are a hunter–gatherer society. There is historical and archaeological evidence of elements of a sedentary way of life with villages and houses, and with knowledge associated with techniques of agricultural cultivation and the storage of agricultural products. This is a fascinating perspective, particularly in the context of the continuing debate prompted by climate change about Australian agriculture and its sustainability with increasingly disruptive droughts, fires and floods. There may be things that we can and should be learning from Indigenous Aboriginal people about their tens of thousands of years of continuous and sustainable lived experience on this continent.
