In October, Matt Poll, Manager of Indigenous Programs at the Australian National Maritime Museum, spoke on Sydney’s Aboriginal history as part of the First Nations Speaker Series. This series, which began as a collaboration between GML Heritage and the ANU Research Centre for Deep History, now also involves Sydney Living Museums who hosted the presentation in the Gold Melting Room at the NSW Mint. In his talk, Poll painted a picture of Sydney’s deep human history and heritage across several thousand years, and illustrated that these rich and diverse cultural expressions are not so much relics of the deep past but are alive today.

Read the full article on the Research Centre for Deep History website.