9 May

That question people ask, if you had a time machine, where would you go? Now I would choose Australia, before the First Fleet arrived. Something miraculous, unique in all the world, had happened here, and had been happening tens of thousands of years before the pyramids were built. The aboriginal people had not only discovered the secret to eternal civilisation, in the process they'd created a paradise, a Garden of Eden. The firsthand accounts make you despair, what we've lost and can never recover. We don't just need to reconcile with aboriginal people, we may have lost access to the literal Holy Grail of all human knowledge.