The art of the story is in the listening*
Humans are natural storytellers. Since our ancestors came down from the trees, we have been telling stories. The oral tradition of storytelling existed long before the graphic and written forms as a means of carrying our history. We learn from the past in order to build a future. Whether it’s a yarn told around a campfire, a tale told at Granddad’s table, or a hilarious anecdote in a wedding speech, our stories are our footholds to the future. The story of Australia is a long and very rich one. The oldest landmass on earth, it contains rocks dated to 3000 million years ago, preceding the evolution of homo sapiens by around 2999 million years. The ancient Gondwana landscape, the supercontinent that ultimately divided to form Australia, Antarctica, South America, South Africa and India, was home to towering rainforests and giant megafauna. The first humans arrived on what became the Australian continent around 65,000 years ago, and so began the naming of thin...