Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Shop Local

Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Shop LocalFatal Contact explores the devastating infectious diseases introduced into the Indigenous populations of Australia after the arrival of the British colonists in 1788. Epidemics of smallpox, tuberculosis, influenza, measles and sexually transmitted diseases swept through the Indigenous populations of the continent well into the twentieth century. The consequences still echo today in Aboriginal health and life expectancy. Many historians have

sometimes contemporary

authoritative and straightforward style

In Do Open

the concept of design is not limited to functionality or materiality

The issue also includes an interview with Staffan Ahrenberg and Miquel Barceló

and artists from Europe and the US who lived in South America

Accompanying a QAGOMA exhibition of the same name

Surveying 50 artists working in various mediums and depicting varied terrains

He has won the Archibald Prize on two occasions and the Dobell Drawing Prize twice

concise and richly illustrated

In 1962 a leading art critic named him 'our greatest painter'

readable and beautifully illustrated introduction to an entire civilization