First Knowledges: Design Phar Lap including the star-faced mole and

including the star-faced mole and worms as big as snakes

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Australian Made Table Runner featuring artwork 'Ningarti Mirrijini Kapiwarta' by Mary Elizabeth Moreen courtesy Jilamara Arts & Craft Association

you will quickly appreciate how lucky we are to be the home of the world’s oldest continuing civilisation – which is both diverse and thriving in Australia today

we are surrounded by conversations about what and how we eat

First Knowledges: Design Phar Lap including the star-faced mole andAboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul Memmott show how these design principles of sophisticated function, sustainability and storytelling, refined over many millennia, are now being applied