Showing posts with label conflict. Show all posts
Showing posts with label conflict. Show all posts

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.