Aaron+Lam

AARON LAM My perspective of Australian culture is greatly influenced by aboriginals. Aboriginals were the first people on the Australia but the British took their own land away from them. There are many aboriginal songs, poems, and paintings that show what Australia was truly like before the British came.

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Municipal Gum By Oodgeroo Noonuccal Gumtree in the city street, Hard bitumen around your feet, Rather you should be In the cool world of leafy forest halls And wild bird calls Here you seems to me Like that poor cart-horse Castrated, broken, a thing wronged, Strapped and buckled, its hell prolonged, Whose hung head and listless mien express Its hopelessness. Municipal gum, it is dolorous To see you thus Set in your black grass of bitumen-- O fellow citizen, What have they done to us?

Aaron & Caitrin