With The Rainbow Serpent, Dick Roughsey shared the spirit of our country. His work is a gift to us all | Alexis Wright Miles Franklin-winner Alexis Wright pays tribute to the first book that visualised this powerful ancestral being from an Indigenous imagination

Dick Roughsey belonged to the Rainbow Serpent cultures in the Gulf of Carpentaria, where Gangalidda elder Murrandoo Yanner had said, “All we have got to give to the world is our humanity.”

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