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La Trobe University Essay | ‘A Haunted Land No Longer? Changing Relationships to a Spiritualised Australia’ by Peter Read

October 2004, no. 265 01 October 2004
In 1989 John Mulvaney proposed that ‘the greatest gift of Aboriginal society to multicultural Australia’ was ‘a spiritual concept of place’. It was a momentous pronouncement, but two decades later both the statement and the gift itself need reassessment. If Mulvaney was right, then non-Aboriginal Australians enunciated their most precise and passionate concepts of place in the two decades ... (read more)