Mathew Trinca will continue to work in the cultural sector following his departure from the NMA. There were massacres on the record into the 20th century.

'There was war here on the Australian continent, waged between First Nations and those that have come after in those early decades. 'The simple and honest truth is that those moments in the early colonial period were devastating for Aboriginal people,' he said. He said some of that money would go towards remaking the museum's Gallery of First Australians to more accurately depict the early conflicts between black and white Australians, known as the Frontier Wars. 'Not for the museum, but for First Nations people in this country.'ĭr Trinca's decision to not seek reappointment comes after he helped secure an additional $80 million in budget funding for the NMA, reversing a decade of funding decline. 'And to see now a museum in the United Kingdom decide to return some of those spears that were actually shown in 2015 …to return them to La Perouse permanently, that's a milestone step really. Wasik and Murphy chronicle more than two millennia of myths and discoveries about rabies and the animals that transmit it, including dogs, bats and raccoons.' a discussion about cultural meaning, about rights and responsibilities of the custodial work that museums do. A smart, unsettling, and strangely stirring piece of work.' -San Francisco Chronicle 'Fascinating. 'A searing narrative.' -The New York Times 'In this keen and exceptionally well-written book, rife with surprises, narrative suspense and a steady flow of expansive insights, 'the world's most diabolical virus' conquers the unsuspecting reader's imaginative nervous system. From Greek myths to zombie flicks, from the laboratory heroics of Louis Pasteur to the contemporary search for a lifesaving treatment, Rabid is a fresh and often wildly entertaining look at one of humankind's oldest and most fearsome foes. In this critically acclaimed exploration, journalist Bill Wasik and veterinarian Monica Murphy chart four thousand years of the history, science, and cultural mythology of rabies.

The most fatal virus known to science, rabies-a disease that spreads avidly from animals to humans-kills nearly one hundred percent of its victims once the infection takes root in the brain.

Rabid a cultural history