BBC Radio prog. - may be of interest

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BBC - "From Our Own Correspondent". Listen or read.

"In the Northern Territories of Australia a project has been set up to help Aborigines find work and to escape the pressures of 21st Century life."

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Mike Harding

I have read and re-read the article numerous times. I can't really figure out what your point is in directing us to it. You haven't expressed yourself as such.
Are you trying to publicise the plight of the Aborigines in outback communities?
Are you concerned that they are involved in trying to control the wildfires in the area?
Are you trying to tell us that you are pleased that they have gone back into the bush to try and 'escape' the ravishes of white man and his insidious ways?
Are you unsure what the BBC correspondent is/was trying to convey to his listening audience?
Perhaps you like me were just overwhelmed with admiration for these people, trying as a group to re-establish themselves and regain some dignity and self respect - away from the evils of drink, drugs and city/town living.
If so - well done, it's a great article - reasonably well written by a 'foreign correspondent', for a change. I think it presents a realistic and balanced view of reality and hardship by indigenous people to the outside world.

Oh dear

The 'correspondent' must have done a copy and paste from someone elses writing.

e.g 'The plateau is teeming with buffalo'.

Under the BTEC Brucelosis Tuberculosis Eradication Control scheme all the Water buffalo were shot out by 1997. Only small private entrprises of tested water buffalo remain on isolated stations in the Top End as pilot schemes.

The Northern Territories???

Seeing as it is a an age old practice of the aborigines to light fires to flush out the wild life I wonder where this correspondent dug his info out from.

Assimilation?....That was a 1950's ideology and long gone.

The BBC drops to new lows!!!

Get real!!

Article by "Andrew Harding"

Not a relative of yours Michael?

What a crock of $hit,
"He grew up in the wilderness, living in the trees above a billabong or pond"
How many black fellas have we seen living in the trees??

The BBC has always been renowned for its crap.

Maybe the correspondents name is Greek, Con Descending or something like that as that is how the writing comes over. There are indeed an unteeming population of buffalo up there, and Oenpilli (spelling) is quite remote at any rate.

The local indiginies we saw in Kakadu were assimilated well, nice guys too, intersting read though Mike, wonder how the un-knowledgeable readers take it?

Still peeing myself, sings a song about a lizard, that is so 1930