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Post by Deleted on Jan 3, 2013 15:28:21 GMT 10
If you have an issue with crime in Alice Springs (or any other location), there is a simple solution:DON'T GO THERE!
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Post by pim on Jan 3, 2013 15:41:43 GMT 10
KTJ that is spam. Alice Springs is not the only town with a large Aboriginal population that's out-of-the way and isolated and embodies every social dysfunction with its substance abuse and violent criminal behaviour. It just happens to be one of the bigger ones. And spare us your ill-informed historical bullshit about "whitey" dispossessing the original inhabitants. Coming from an Aboriginal leader like Noel Pearson and Marcia Langton - and someone who's on the spot and is a local Aboriginal leader like Bess Price, that line has a certain credibility and what's more they attempt to provide leadership to their own people in getting up and out of the mess. But coming from you it's ill-informed over-simplified phony lollipop radical chic ultra left bullshit. You don't know what you're talking about. Geddit?? You're c-l-u-e-l-e-s-s mate! As clueless as Matt and as bigoted as Skippy. There's no shortage of towns like Alice Springs ... except they're smaller and even more out of the way. Little hellholes in the middle of nowhere like Wilcannia where the kids have f*** all to do except sniff petrol, get into trouble and start on their life's work which is to get themselves a police record. To say "don't go there" is a typical whitefella response. Out of sight, out of mind ...
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Post by garfield on Jan 4, 2013 19:28:44 GMT 10
Buzz, did you do this? ...
Namatjira ghost gums deliberately torched
TWO ghost gums that captured the imagination of indigenous artist Albert Namatjira have been reduced to ashes.
The trees, about 20km outside Alice Springs, were believed to have been lit in a deliberate attack last weekend.
Northern Territory Indigenous Advancement Minister Alison Anderson said the iconic trees had become a "special place" for Territorians, art lovers, historians and tourists alike.
"The ghost gums featured in many of his works and were easily accessible on the road to Hermannsburg, where he was born in 1902," Ms Anderson said.
"The twin ghost gums were a wonderful reminder of his connection to the land and many who visited the site would have felt a connection to this great Territorian.
"Often visitors stopped just to stand in the place where he captured the trees and the magnificence of the Australian landscape.
"In his watercolours, he brought the beauty of the central Australian landscape to the world and helped make it a symbol of Australian identity."
The gums were featured in many of Namatjira's artworks.
A spokeswoman from the Territory's Department of Lands, Planning and the Environment said that environmental protection work had been carried out around the trees recently to protect them from fires and allow as much moisture as possible to get to their roots.
She said a worker from the department found the trees yesterday morning during a routine check of the area, though police estimated they were burned down several days earlier.
Namatjira held his first exhibition in 1938 and painted for the next two decades. He died in 1959.
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