The Story of Australia's People Vol. IICompelling, groundbreaking and brilliantly readable, The Story of Australia's People The Rise and Fall of Ancient Australia is the first instalment of an ambitious two part work, and the culmination of the lifework of Australia's most prolific and wide ranging historian. The vast continent of Australia was settled in two main streams, far apart in time and origin. The first came ashore some 50,000 years ago when the islands of Australia, Tasmania and