Indigenous Australia: Enduring Civilisation review – a fabulous beast

British Museum doesn’t shy from its ownership of many controversial artefacts in this wonderful exploration of Indigenous Australian tragedy and triumphWhat is civilisation? Westerners tend to think it has something to do with Greek statues and classical music. No wonder they failed to recognise it when they saw it in the great southern continent that Captain James Cook claimed as a British possession in 1770. The expressions of civilisation that could be clearly seen all over Australia were s