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Profile: John Bradley

Lucinda Schmidt
February 16, 2011
AUS

This academic's best lessons have come from indigenous culture.

When John Bradley's 12-year-old son was killed in a boating accident five
years ago, he drew on 30 years spent with indigenous people in Australia's
far north to deal with the grief.

''It's weird, but I'm a more contented person now; I'm more present for
people,'' says Bradley, 51, the deputy director of Monash University's
Centre for Australian Studies. ''It taught me life is too short for crap -
you've got to grasp the world here and now.''

That's something the Yanyuwa people, based near the Gulf of Carpentaria,
have known for thousands of years.

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