* In recent
years there has been increased interest in the Australian
Aboriginals whose culture we started to preserve only when
we were in danger of losing it. It is important that white
Australians should appreciate the wealth of imagination
displayed in Aboriginal legend. Their imagination produced
tales (like the sample shown below) both beautiful and amusing.
Myth adapted from A.W. Reed's Aboriginal Stories
of Australia (Reed Books PTY LTD), 1988
1. Everyone knows what a kangaroo is and looks like
but see how much you know about other aspects of Aboriginal Australia.
Say if the statements in the chart below are TRUE or FALSE according to
what you know.
Why do this? This may bring a chance to get to know Australian
Aboriginal culture better and will switch you into the right atmosphere
before reading the fable below.