So nicely put, P, but which Terra Nullius did you have in mind?
Doug
On 2012-08-22, at 1:25 AM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Something I am tinkering with naïve what!!
>
> 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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