Bill Gammage, award-winning author of The Biggest Estate on Earth discusses Aboriginal management of land.
Bill Gammage is an Emeritus Professor in the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University (ANU), researching Aboriginal land management at the time of contact (1788).
Professor Gammage grew up in Wagga. A graduate of ANU, he taught history at the Universities of Papua New Guinea (1966, 1972-6) and Adelaide (1977-96). He wrote The Broken Years on Australian soldiers in the Great War (1974), An Australian in the First World War (1976), Narrandera Shire (1986), The Sky Travellers on the 1938-39 Hagen-Sepik Patrol in New Guinea (1998), and The Biggest Estate on Earth: How Aborigines made Australia (2011).
He served the National Museum of Australia for three years as Council member, Deputy Chair and Acting Chair. He was made a Freeman of the Shire of Narrandera in 1987, a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 1991, and a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2005.
Refreshments from 5.30pm.
