Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Brand / Loqi and thus is not about

and thus is not about the past

with Joan Jonas and John Baldessari at the University of California

Leases are marked on a map covering huge areas

tells her story of love and loss

and reveals his vision of the land as a source of light

Fatal Contact: How Epidemics Nearly Wiped Out Australia’s First Peoples Brand / Loqi and thus is not aboutFatal 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