in terms of describing the difference between indigenous and western inhabitants of this incredible country, perhaps no other image can be as powerful... we can see that australia was once divided by hundreds of aboriginal nations that derived their boundaries - and in particular size from the overall area required to sustain the people of that particular nation.
for example those in coastal regions on the east coast of australia, with an abundance of resources require much smaller areas to survive as opposed to countries in the more harsh central australian desert regions.
we see immediately that in comparison to the political state lines that we live by in todays western culture the mapping was purely driven by means of survival and the self-sufficiency of the tribe.
wealth in this case is based upon survival - not money...
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