Goodbye Bussamarai Tony Albert With imagination and insight

With imagination and insight

This is the architecture of second chances

The Tree Book reveals the anatomy

often based on the creative’s lived experience

and ultimately celebrate the diversity of human history

Goodbye Bussamarai Tony Albert With imagination and insightBussamarai was a powerful resistance leader whose influence spread across five Aboriginal nations. Like the legendary Pemulwuy, Yagan or Jandamara, he fought for the survival of his people, the Mandandanji of southern Queensland. Their homeland bordered northern New South Wales and its infamous sites of Aboriginal massacre and frontier warfare: Myall Creek, Slaughterhouse Creek and Waterloo Creek. This history serves as a sequel to those atrocities,