Thursday, September 20, 2007

Old Conflict

The drive to end child abuse and generally improve life in the Aboriginal communities of the Northern Territory took a step forward with
this agreement
by the traditional owners to lease their land to the Government. To an outsider, it seems strange that this post-colonial conflict is still being worked at the beginning of the 21st century.

This story about the near-death of an Indigenous language shows the difference between the two societies.