Sunday, Apr 20, 2008 at 22:31
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Wiluna around pension day! Admittedly my knowledge may be a bit out of date, but Jesus that place depressed me.
I used to park outside the pub, get the passenger to run in to the white fellas bar and gets a key, drive around the side and open 15 foot high gates and then lock vehicle inside the compound. Mad Max 2 stuff.
I was there in the mid 90's and a cop got his neck cut and another time a 'traditional landowner' killed another with a
rock near the pub. I like the area (I was involved with exploration for Jundee, Bogada
Bore etc) but the 'locals' were absolutely ruined by grog, perpetrated horrendous violence on each other and lived in complete squalor. The streets were literally paved with empty tinnies and goon bags.
May be it's changed..........I sincerely hope so. I know it received a lot of media attention some time back when it was pointed out to the education minister that the school was next to the town's sewage pond.
Re: Hedland, I've had some beaut times there so I might have been a bit harsh. I spent a bit of time living at the at
The Lodge in South and the Pier in Port. A good mate of mine was a bouncer at Mistys nightclub and he has a few stories to tell about that fine establishment. I think the brutal summer time heat, midgies and flies took it out of me a bit. Winter is the go for me.
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