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As I child I fantasised about life in the Outback.
These films are those fantasies come real.
Absolutely eye opening, from the chilled out hotel owner to the casual poem about genocide.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00y1hdr
Speaking of childhood fantasies...Outback!
There, I've said it. Someone was going to.
No...Walkabout.
23 episodes of ‘outback she’ll be roight’
I remember watching some of his old films many years ago and wondered how he'd feel nowadays with some of the commentary on them that iirc was very 'colonial' and left me feeling a bit uncomfortable.
I'll have another watch, they were interesting 👍
Yep, the poem at the end and the man’s description of his wife are truly from another time…..yet some of the people I encountered in NT may make you think otherwise.
As a kid Australia really enthralled me, got to the point of applying to study at Western australian institute of technology but bottled it at the last minute. Will check out that link later thanks.
I've been really interested in Aboriginal culture for as long as I can remember and had hoped to spend some time in the NT Yolngu communities teaching maybe 15 years ago, but sadly life got in the way. I'd love to go over there again, but I couldn't handle the travel to get there now even if I could afford it.
Can't watch these outside the UK ... but i can imagine the cringe.
Most Australians don't really experience much outside the main cities or nearby countryside. It's a fair way to go to get to the Outback proper, it's always a bit further than you think.
I did a 'lap' with my wife a decade or so back. We were really confronted by some of the things we saw so signed up to volunteer in a very remote community in the Northern Territory (in the wet season you're cut off from the main road which is already 5 hours drive away in good conditions, so can only get in and out by plane). We were supposed to spend several months there working with the school and community, but despite the community supporting us the paternalistic whitefella council refused us accommodation. I could go on for days ...
I recommend this film for a more contemporary view of Indigenous Australia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_and_Delilah_(2009_film)
We're about to have a referendum on "A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice."
https://www.reconciliation.org.au/reconciliation/support-a-voice-to-parliament/
... you can imagine the Brexit style shitshow that's kicking off.