4 July

Another short excerpt from the SBS series, where they look at the mapping early Europeans did of the landscape they found here. And how it was nothing like ‘the bush’ we see today. The entire continent was an astonishing landscaped, tended garden. Our arrogance said Aborigines were hunter-gathering savages who lived in what we call the bush. But there was no bush, they shaped the entire continent into a landscaped wonder-garden, of abundance and beauty, which we then destroyed, creating ‘the bush’, a garden gone to seed, growing wild. WE created the bush, it’s like an abandoned block. As ‘the outback’ is abandoned interior land.