All across Australia, urban excursions like Indigenous Tours WA are challenging the perception that the country's Aboriginal history can only be experienced in the desert.
Greg Nannup, owner of Indigenous Tours WA, was embarking on a swirling, multi-strand tale of whale beachings, child spirits and rainbow serpents.
However, tour guides may have to change their tale; a new genetic analysis finds that these red cabbage palms (Livistona mariae) arrived only 15,000 years ago, possibly among the foods carried by indigenous people as they settled the area.
There are visits to settlements of the Nifkhi, the principal indigenous group; tours of colonial buildings in the capital, Yuzhno, that date to the Japanese occupation of 1905-45; and plenty of casinos and nightclubs.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has gone on something of an indigenous innovation tour in recent weeks, visiting factories across the country and encouraging further investment in the country's technology industry.
The tour business, too, is white-dominated, although there is one highly successful indigenous company, Anangu Tours.
After leaving his job in the finance industry last year, Pickering started Sydney Out Back which runs Indigenous rock art tours in the national park that borders Sydney's northern suburbs and in the adjacent Hawkesbury river.
The Healesville Sanctuary, roughly 40 miles (60 km) east of Melbourne, serves not only as a wildlife conservation centre, supporting more than 200 native species, but also as a cultural centre, preserving and transmitting indigenous knowledge through guided tours into the protected bushlands.
The Indigo Girls took the vocal group Ulali on tour; B. B. King booked the sibling blues-rock group Indigenous on his touring blues festival; and Pearl Jam and Tori Amos played with the singer-songwriter Bill Miller.
When organisers of a tour of Indigenous Australian films in east Africa announced public screenings of the films in Kampala on social media, several people got in touch wondering if they'd get the chance to watch "wildlife documentaries".
Diesel and Dust, the album from which Beds are Burning was drawn, was the result of Midnight Oil's 1986 Blackfella-Whitefella tour of Indigenous communities with the mostly Aboriginal Warumpi Band and Gondwanaland – the latter one of the few groups to have deployed the didgeridoo as a lead instrument.
