The second lecture in the 2008 Sydney PEN Voices: 3 Writers series, Melissa Lucashenko delivers a stirring treatise on the subject of Survival. “Traditional Aboriginal culture has been portrayed by many outsiders as embodying the Aussie values of survival... From an Indigenous perspective, however, survivalism is anything but a value worth striving for. It is, rather, the signature value of a degraded and unsophisticated culture of random violence which arrived along with Arthur Phillip".
Sydney, September 2008
(Part 1 of 2)