The Two Australias
The Two Australias Before I continue writing about our journey, I think it is time to talk a bit about Australia itself. Somehow, I don't think that is accurate enough if we talk about one Australia only. The more I am here and the more I learn about the country, the more I realize that there are Two Australias . The Aboriginal Memorial in the NGA in Canberra/ACT The First Australia was/is populated by the indigenous peoples and there are two main groups, the Aborigines (from Latin “ab origio” – from origin/beginning) and the Torres Strait Islander. Last is less known when we think about Australia. Aborigines lived almost everywhere in livable Australia, but the Torres Strait Islanders lived at the northern coast of Queensland and the Torres Strait Islands between Australia and Papua New Guinea. For nearly 60.000 years, Australia was home to these people. The oldest and longest existing culture in human history. If we think about it, the Holocene started about 1...
