LNL Summer: Deep history, an Indigenous way of seeing the past

Late Night Live - Separate stories podcast · Jan 1, 2026 · 26m

This nation’s past can be understood a whole lot better if Indigenous perspectives on history are listened to. It means considering rock art and other forms of storytelling, and the experiences that First Nations people have when they walk on country. Guests: Jackie Huggins, historian, author, Bidjara Elder of the Carnarvon Gorge area of Central QLD, and director of Indigenous Research at the University of QLD; and Ann McGrath, WK Hancock Chair of History at the ANU, where she also leads the Kathleen Fitzpatrick Laureate Program on Deep History. Ann and Jackie are the co-editors of ‘Deep…