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(of Aborigines living in remote areas of Australia): The government cannot ‘endlessly subsidise
lifestyle choices (which) are not conducive to the kind
of full participation in Australian society that everyone
should have …’
- Tony Abbot, PM. 11.3.15
Thousands of kilometres from Canberra, well
distant from Sydney, plenty far from any
settled city, many First Australians congregate.
Their choice? Live there or where
else? You can't get any more local
than where you live.
This is where you connect to country.
This is is where your ancestors lived.
This is where you slot into kinship.
It's only remote to others who are local
to where they live. Remoteness connotes
not so much a physical distance
as an inability to step into the skin
of someone who feels as localised
as their own beating heart.
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