Crime Scene Australia #1: Terror Nullius

Australia's first, post-colonial, revisionist Oz history, adult graphic novel, tackles many dark and difficult stories from Australia’s bloody history, and raises a trove of contemporary questions around invasion, genocide, indigenous and non-indigenous representation, memory, truth-telling and counter narrative storytelling.

This darkly humorous, meticulously researched, cross-cultural work has significant indigenous narratives and has been created in collaboration with indigenous protocols directors and cultural practitioners, Robbie Thorpe (Victoria, Gunai/Mara) and Carroll Karpany (South Australia, Ngarrindjeri).

Writer/artist, Charlie Hill-Smith, is an award-winning documentary writer, director and producer, (4 nominations for Australian Academy Awards), with TV screenings with ABC, SBS, NITV, Channel 10 & RedbullTV. Charlie has worked in post-colonial, cross-cultural spaces in Oz, Indonesia and Papua for 25 years (from Rolf Deheer’s Ten Canoes to Motorkite Dreaming to Crime Scene Australia), and has deep experience in defining and negotiating indigenous protocols and telling post-colonial stories in our region.