Thursday, May 24, 2012

Visitors from the APY Lands

We have some central aborigines from the APY Lands visiting today.  They have a huge native title area that straddles the border between Northern Territory, Western Australia and South Australia.  They want to set up a similar aboriginal wilderness camp on their lands two hours drive from Ayres Rock.  They have come to see how it's set up here to get some ideas.  I was quizzing them by the fire last night about their communities and their artists.  Nice folks.  They have to buck the expectations of their culture in order to get ahead.  In the aboriginal culture, what's yours also belongs to anyone else in the community who wants it and asks for it.  Everything is shared.  So there isn't much incentive to get ahead.

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