Sounds like a must read this, Max, Pat, the Gammage book and I like to see Adrian Hyland recommending it in The Age. He, the local man up here at St Andrews (Kinglake 350 a stunning work of reportage) and also a Latrober.
Bill
On 22/08/2012, at 6:42 PM, Max Richards wrote:
> naive, in a sense, but the sentiment is often expressed hereabouts in comparable ways, Patrick.
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> You may enjoy this:
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> http://wheelercentre.com/projects/victorian-premier-s-literary-awards-2012/book/the-greatest-estate-on-earth-how-aborigines-made-australia/
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> On 22/08/2012, at 5:25 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
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>> Something I am tinkering with naïve what!!
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>> THANKS
>>
>> thanks
>> for the visit
>> thanks again
>>
>> but perhaps now
>> the time has come
>> really for you to
>> go back home
>> take your time
>> don’t hurry!
>> say a week or two
>> or even a month!
>> and Europe is not
>> really so far away
>> and Australia has
>> good air connections
>> but you stayed for
>> over two hundred years!
>> just a bit too long!
>> sort of overdid it!
>>
>> so cheers and goodbye
>> free tickets provided!
>> bon voyage!
>> ya.minyah!
>> ek-u-ba!
>>
>> pmcmanus
>> r140
>> dedicated to the aboriginal
>> inhabitants of Terra Nullius
>> ek-u-ba – a Kutthung - Aboriginal word meaning 'Goodbye'.
>> ya.minyah -a Wiradjuri -Aboriginal word meaning 'Goodbye'.
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