In this chapter I seek to apply to the art of Sahul the principles I outlined for art in the previous chapter, beginning with some essential features of the continent of Sahul. I then look at the conditions applicable to the principles of art that I explored for the rest of the world: the expectation of meaning and the indeterminacy of that meaning; how individuals can define themselves through personal ornaments; the evidence of ritual and teaching; ways of reducing the indeterminacy of marking; overcoming the tyranny of distance and place and the importance of the art persisting in places. These principles are derived from the history of communications around the world and end with three principles which I derived from behavior that did not exist in Aboriginal Australia or Sahul prior to colonization by Europeans: fixing the story through writing; freeing the story from institutions of control as a result of the invention of printing; and overcoming the tyranny of time as expressed by the introduction of the telegraph. I show that features of Australian art can be compared to what happened elsewhere despite the lack of writing, printing, and the telegraph.