Indigenous songlines: a beautiful way to think about the confluence of story and time | Paul Daley

Submitted by Paul Daley on Mon, 04/07/2016 - 11:53am

The theme of Naidoc week is songlines. For the uninitiated – and that is most non-Indigenous Australians – songlines challenge the way we think about history

How many non-Indigenous Australians know what a songline is?

Given this country’s pervasive general ignorance regarding Indigenous Australia, you’d have to bet not too many – despite the fact that songlines criss-cross not only the remotest parts of the continent as well as our seas, but also the cities and suburbs.