"Contact" a must see - Channel 2 at 9.25 tonight.

Good, thanks for the heads up.

I'm looking forward to watching it... if I don't fall asleep that is.

Another thanks for the headsup. Always wanted to see this.

Thanks for that.
Love to see stuff about the bush....

Douglas Lockwood. THE LIZARD EATERS. Cassell Publishing 1964

It seems incredible that in the Jet-and-Electronics Age there should still be living in Australia people who have had no contact whatever with our civilisation...people who had never seen white faces . . had never seen their own image in a mirror or been close to a motor vehicle of any kind. For many years there had been rumours of such a lost tribe of aborigines in the vast deserts of Central Australia, but generally they were treated as fantasy.

The fact of their existence was confirmed in recent years by officers from the Welfare Branch of Northern Territory Administration who began patrolling the Gibson and Great Sandy Deserts in 1957. They found Pintubi tribesmen who had never been in touch with our way of life. In 1963 the Melbourne Herald's Darwin correspondent, Douglas Lockwood, was invited to join a patrol into the Gibson Desert to a point about 600 miles west of Alice Springs, and 200 miles across the W.A. border. Here he tells the fascinating story of that journey and the discovery of yet more Pintubi people . . . perhaps the most primitive tribesmen remaining on Earth.

He describes the thrill he felt on meeting aborigines who had never before set eyes on a white face...and the profound respect he developed for human beings who had lived in unbelievably harsh conditions for thousands of years. The cover photograph of a Pintubi child eating a lizard was taken by Lockwood, as were most of the black and white pictures in this book

The ABC prog tonight is about the Aboriginal Tribe who lived in the Woomera Area - people might recall that they have only just recently been 'given back' their lands very recently...
The Lizard Eaters was about the Aboriginal Tribe that Lockwood "investigated" in the Simpson after Gov't workers reported sightings. The Last of the Nomads was about and Aboriginal couple and their children. The man and woman were from different tribes and forbidden to marry - so they ran away into the desert and lived solitary for many years.
I'm looking forward to that Doco tonight on ABC.
Jedo

Thanks Heaps. Have my panasonic set so can watch it over the weekend. Bob

It was great to see both sides thru different eyes of the original contact. A well made documentry.

Cheers Wilko

Saw the end of it Willie. I set the recorder the other day when I gave an earlier "heads up". Will see it when we get home.

When are you heading South again to Victoria?

I had tennis comp last night so I taped it and will watch it today.

Good to see some of you watched it and enjoyed it. Pretty amazing story.

Cheers,

Willie.

Hi All,
The question on my mind and was not mentioned was - "What happened to the men" A group of 20 women and children is a large group of people for that type of country and some of the women had young babies.

It is a pity that there was no mention of the fate of their partners.

It was a great put together documentary.


Cheers



Stephen

A good yarn along the same vein is Judy Nunn's "Maralinga" , even though a novel it gives an insite to the atomic testing at Maralinga.

For those that missed it, you can see it here on line.

http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/series/2834603

Willie.