THE BEGINNINGS...

"This is our land. It goes back, a long way back, into the Dreamtime, into the land of our Dreaming. We made our camp here, and now all that is left of our presence are the ashes and the bones of the dead animals the young men had killed. Soon even our footprints will be carried away by the wind.”

ABORIGINAL PROVERB

The continent of Australia was once part of the greater land mass called Gondwanaland, where it has housed one of the oldest and longest surviving culture.

Aboriginals were the real founders of Australia because they came to this land thousands of years before white people discovered it. In 1988 white Australians celebrated 200 years of white settlement in this country. But Aboriginals have been here for at least 40,000 years. When white people came to Australia, they came to a land that already belonged to the Aboriginals. No one knows exactly where the Aboriginals lived before they came to Australia. It is known that Aboriginals came from somewhere in South-East Asia and that they left their homes and travelled to Australia in canoes or on rafts. Australian aboriginal culture is the oldest living culture in the world, at least 40,000 years old.

Here is a example of the traditional music the native people of Australia, the so-called aboriginals.