Summer: Aboriginal trackers; the carbon club and The Pick

Published: Jan. 18, 2021, 1:05 a.m.

We’ve all heard in passing about Aboriginal people being used as trackers to assist early settlers in Australia, to find their way in this vast continent, or to find someone. But what is perhaps not know widely is the opportunity those traditional skills of tracking gave to Aboriginal men and women during colonial days, to use those skills to adapt and survive in a new world by being attached to police stations across the country.