----- Original Message ----- From: Trudy Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: news-clip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 08, 2000 12:57 PM Subject: -[Tino Rangatiratanga]- The Age: Aborigines wait for the world to click > THE AGE > Aborigines wait for the world to click > > By DAVID MARR > ULURU > Thursday 8 June 2000 > > Out in the desert, we are preparing for the biggest photo > opportunity in the world starring a red rock and Nova > Peris-Kneebone. Twenty hours before the big moment, she is > posing on the edge of the Bus Sunset Viewing Area with an > unlit torch in her hand. > > Already she has won gold - for smiling as an endurance > event. > > The country is looking so beautiful but some of the TV crews > are worried - especially the Germans. The desert is knee deep > in flowering scrub. Where's the sand? They want red sand. > > Channel Seven has found a patch of red sand and staked it out for the morning > telecast with a ring of blue directors' chairs. > > Meanwhile, the cameras are clustered around Ms Peris-Kneebone. On her left breast > is a little ad for Dick Pratt's outfit Visy and in her hand is the torch. After what's > happened in New Zealand, a first glimpse of this instrument raises two questions: will > it stay alight and where do you hold it for a firm grip? > > Journalists are fishing for signs of Aboriginal discontent. Cynics might say it's an odd > business putting all this Aboriginality on show to the world - while running the torch > from deep in the territory of mandatory sentencing to John Howard's home town. > Uluru and its people are stupendously beautiful but is this really Australia? > > "It's a start," replies Ms Peris-Kneebone. "You've got to start somewhere and we're > starting here." > > She wasn't talking about the relay. She means the education of Australia and the > world. That's why the press is welcome. Fellow torch-runner Lowitja O'Donohue, > doing her own work for the cameras in another corner of the car park, backed her up: > "There is so much to learn." > > One thing she hopes will come out of all this hubbub is the death of "Ayers Rock". > "It's Uluru," says Dr O'Donohue. "It's the belly of Australia," says Ms > Peris-Kneebone. > > Back at base camp one of the traditional owners, Tony Tjamiwa, is lecturing the press > in his language. He's getting into his stride. "No government will impose things on us > that will change the way we are," he says through his interpreter. "To this very strong > culture we welcome you to our place on our terms." > > > > > ************************************************************************* > This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without > permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, > scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal > copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of > the copyright owner, except for "fair use." > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Accurate impartial advice on everything from laptops to table saws. > http://click.egroups.com/1/4634/3/_/20596/_/960436734/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _________________________________________________ > Subscribe to the Tino Rangatiratanga eGroup > http://aotearoa.wellington.net.nz/subsc/ > _________________________________________________ > > > ------------------------------------------------------ RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 and is archived at http://www.mail-archive.com/ To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use." RecOzNet2 is archived for members @ http://www.mail-archive.com/recoznet2%40paradigm4.com.au/
