It would be easy to slight this essay as another preachy exercise in political correctness, however the more difficult and rewarding path of acknowledging that there are valid enduring reasons that Indigenous Australians have sensitivities to cultural disassociation and appropriation is the one I want to tread.Įlucidating the material culture of early people in arid Australia and the nature of their environmental interactions is essential for understanding the adaptability of populations and the potential causes of megafaunal extinctions 50-40 thousand years ago (ka).
I will use unconscious bias as the thread of this paper, including exploring my own response to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal rock art. As a nation we have made explicit attempts to progress reconciliation through domestic policy agendas, but there remains an unspoken undercurrent of discrimination against Aboriginal people. I will also explore the indirect cultural appropriation created when artworks overtly reference distinctive Aboriginal rock art. In this paper I consider the consequences for Aboriginal well-being when feelings of dispossession are triggered by Aboriginal rock art being attributed to another race (including aliens). We all love a conspiracy theory and hopefully at some point have all been so moved by something as to be compelled to act.
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