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i find it remarkable that these thing really happen here in Aus, what people dont realize is the movies dont show it as bad as it really is. i am no racist but we need to help these people and show them what they can be instead of throwing them straight to jail. i have family complian about them and how they are using up all the tax payers money. i think that if they are convicted for something and are put into jail they should have a school there they must attend this way they learn something and if they come out, well then they have learnt something while they are in there and are able to even try and do something with their lives.
i also think the gouvernment should be more strict on their children going to school. my younger brother used to friends with a couple of Aboriginal boys, he has moved now, but i stayed behind and see these boys on a regular basis at work. when i see them i ask how was school and htey say the didnt go cause they dont have to. we need to help them realize how important it is that they help themselves help us to help them!

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With all due respect sammi87; turning them into white clones will not solve their dilemna. I learnt the hard way that being paternal and patronising by graciously bestowing our culture on them for their so called own good is simply ignorant, misguided and utterly stupid.

We need to understand the people, before we can understand the problem. I don't have the answers, but I feel that telling them to allow us to help them; is like trying to use petrol to put out a fire.

I began to write a short film some time ago about the cross culture gap, and found in the process how little I really knew about aboriginals, and I simply felt ridiculous and patronising.

I have a lot to learn about them, and about the problems of co-existence we face. We are in this crazy stalemate today, they want there land, but we want to continue to live our culture as free men and capitalists, which happens to occupy a great deal of their original land. I just don't knwo what to do, but I am beginning to understand thr problem, slowly.

I give thanks to the fil makers for further teaching me about the culture of the aboriginal people. I hope I can make a difference one day too.


"Hell is the impossibility of all reason."

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i dont want them to be changed into white clones i want white people to realise that everyone learns at their own pace and if they find it hard to learn about what we are capable of doing today as human beings it is no cause for going out and killing them or treating them like they are not worth anything becuase we will regret it one day. hopefully really soon.

you know i would love to learn more about their old ways of living, i believe we would have so much to learn from their culture. it would be such a shame if we unable to understand their way of doing things because unlike a lot of people think this is not a white mans world.

if you are able to writing your film and need Aboriginal actors i have a friend who is really interested in acting and i would be more than happy to recomed her to you.

thank you for your veiw, i really appreciated it


"THERE IS NO LIFE WORTH LIVING THAN THE CURRENT LIFE YOU HAVE NOW!"

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Well this board is going well, for a movie that got 2 awards.
I live in Australia, I don't know any aboriginals. But I would be the first to agree that I don't know much about abodiginals, of course they were good hunters and whatever, I don't see what the issue is, some are still living like they want to, others have adapted to the Anglo Saxon way. But really the people missing out the most are us. To us Death happens by Cancer, to Hunter's and other people they die with honour and valiance.
I hope I die getting kicked to death by a kangaroo rather than cancer.
I don't see the issue, also when someone else posts here telling me that I don't have a clue whats going on, well maybe in 3 more years I might. When we get another post.

I'm so immature.

Party Up

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Not know much about aboriginals? I dont know about you guys but we learn about them so much in school. And with good reason.

this movie is excellent and really shows the pressures between the two inflicting cultures.

the petrol sniffing freaked me out. i can't beleive how big a problem it really is.


"What did you say? What are you doing, son? Are you giggling? On my ship, giggling?!"

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If I type something now it will keep this board alive and fresh. I know a little about the aboriginals, I learnt about them in grade 6, but that was how they lived before. Heaps different now. Seriously they shouldn't have included petrol sniffing, maybe weed or something. When a few of my racist friends saw it they were like, yeh of course there would be petrol in an aboriginal movie, it is such a stereotype.
On a lighter note does anyone know why aboriginals have large nostrils?

So they can fit the nozzle of the petrol can.

Party Up

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They shouldn't have included petrol sniffing? Why not, it actually happens.

I might be one of the few people in this topic who knows more about aboriginals and their culture than what you learn in grade 6, as I grew up in Alice Springs and I have spent a lot of time out on communities, and trust me - petrol sniffing isn't just a stereotype, it's a huge and very real problem.

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i don't know why they have slightly larger nostrils.

In school we learnt about the bad treatment nothing like the dreamtime or anything, which would have been awesome.
I studied them a bit more in Society and Culture when i took it up in senior years but I think it was good they used the petrol sniffing but it is a HUGE problem in indigenous communities so it sort of raised awareness in my opinion.

"What did you say? What are you doing, son? Are you giggling? On my ship, giggling?!"

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i had to write an essay on this movie.
i got a L+ new grading systems
im assuming that is like a B or something

from whence you came, you shall remain, until you come complete again

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