East coast Quote by Adam Rutherford

“Australian aborigines, surprisingly, turn out to be a race unlike any other. They and their relatives in New Guinea have no trace in their…

— Nicholas Wade

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Vast tracts of ocean, whether Polynesia, Micronesia or Melanesia, contain island populations that remain outside the modern world. They know about it, they may…

— Andrew Rayner

“Nineteen teeth from twelve sixth-century plague pits in Aschheim near Munich provided the source of the Code of Justinian. In among the ancient human…

— Adam Rutherford

We are so fortunate, as Australians, to have among us the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Cultures that link our nation with deepest…

— Kevin Rudd

“Just as islands—isolated places with unique, rich biodiversity—have relevance for the ecosystems everywhere, so does studying seemingly isolated or overlooked people and events from…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“By the time Lyall set foot on the shores of Stephens Island, almost a third of New Zealand’s unique species were already extinct due…

— Peter P. Marra

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

— Jared Diamond

“There is no doubt that the destiny of indigenous races has been tragic in the process of contact with European invasion… The historian of…

— Bronisław Malinowski

“That European diseases ran rampant in the New World is an old story, but recent discoveries in genetics, epidemiology, and archaeology have painted a…

— Douglas Preston

The differences between Indigenous and not Indigenous Australians can be easily attributed not to differences in their genes but to differences in the conditions…

— Michael Marmot

“There were waves of genocide that overcame indigenous populations of Oceania and do we have a library of books or films to tell our…

— M.B. Dallocchio