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One photojournalist follows the lives of Warumungu traditional owners in Jurnkkurakurr (Tennant Creek) as they detail their ambitious way out of a centuries-long housing crisis.

Comparisons have been made to the marriage equality plebiscite: many knew someone gay, maybe wanting to be married, and so it was personal. But very few white Australians know an indigenous person as a friend. It’s not just numbers - people identifying as LGBTI has been estimated as high as 11%, but is usually accepted at a third of that – the same percentage as indigenous. There are so many other factors.

The tremendously hardy and very old spinifex grass relies on its own nanotechnology to survive - but it may be able to lend us a hand too.

“The thing that Jack Greenland did was to explain very complex ideas of the qualities of the internal spaces of the buildings through diagrams, through basic principles. They are comprehensible to architects to help them make better buildings. I know that attention at the moment is to external form-making – if you go to glamour websites, you'll see hundreds of pictures of the outside of buildings and very, very few of the inside. But the whole reason for architecture is actually the inside of the buildings, which is where architectural science happens,” Wheeler observes.

The book, Gunyah Goondie and Wurley was published in its second edition by last month. The contents are as described on the cover’s subtitle, The Aboriginal Architecture of Australia. A huge topic, done brilliantly.