Up here the favourite trick is to drink cask wine all day in the park, then go to the mental health ward and threaten suicide. Hey presto! a feed and a bed... Costing taxpayers a fortune, and using resources that should be for genuine cases. Its not migrants doing this.
Cheap way of breaking the ice, and as they're mostly backpackers down the esplanade it makes our country look super friendly. Of course it could backfire if a group of bigger girls decides to crash the party and eat all the food.
Stone age is correct. But thats a technical thing, they didnt understand metallurgy or use any iron/copper/gold etc.
Which brings us to the controversial part- were they primitive or not? By what yardstick is this measured? They did have very complex languages and social structures, they had a very complex understanding of the environment they relied on, they had international trade with Maccasans prior to Europeans, and they had very elaborate beliefs and practices.
Without white intervention, there would have been yellow intervention. Or clog-wearing intervention, if not Spanish intervention etc etc. ...The only certainty is there would have been intervention, and they most likely would have suffered an even worse fate.
I'm trying to read a Bill Gammage book, Its very academically written, about indigenous land management prior to Europeans being here. Its controversial, because we always preferred to believe the murris had no idea, just painted a few handprints on a cave wall here and there and lobbed the occasional kangaroo on the fire.
I think Brian Wilsons autobiography would be very interesting.
The best technique I heard of, was these young guys cooking heaps of food at the BBQ then invite heaps of randoms claiming they cooked too much. For the win.
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RE: The desert walk
So can an axe, I dont feel like I'm missing out there either.