Academy Awards

Dont think Australia-the movie got even a mention. Which in context is not a bad thing. It was worth seeing, that Baz Luherman larger than life story telling. The mixture of fact and fantasy. How the large cattle stations over took the great Australian Outback and the true loss of culture and identity for the Australian Aboriginal. It does really show how one culture has been overlayed upon another. Another great Australian Movie is The Castle. I saw it the other night on television again and it was an interesting play on a man and his home versus the big airport companies and how the Aboriginals must feel. It might not be what we think is a castle, yet it is someones home and Mabo was the legislation that began the reconcilliation process and the steps to somehow right some of the wrongs of British colonization. I try to reconcile in my own mind, my British ancestory, the nature of exploration by European explorers and the building of empires. I try to see this in context to global history and understanding of the beliefs regarding different cultures and ways of life and still find there is more to understand. I watch now, as some of the old exploration nations are a bit lost at taking over other little pockets of land for resources and expansion of empire .. to see that part of the psyche of those that explore is a bit lost and its like we want to take over from each other. Hopefully we can work this all out learn to create space for many different aspects of belief and lifestyle without destroying each other and the planet.

Aboriginal land and the white settlement

I am attempting to be kind here to my own. If you notice in the movie Australia, they seem to easily gloss off that the land the Cattle Station is on was originally aboriginal land. I saw something today that made me realize that we, the decendants of the British Colonials are the nomads. The aboriginal people have been connected to this land over a much greater length of time than any other race or nation on earth.

Black america and aboriginal australia

Aboriginal australia suffered slavery too. With many aboriginals working in large houses up until at least the 1930's and having curfews at night. Can we overcome just as they did in the USA? Australia, the movie - maybe The proposition or The Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith or even Rabbit Proof Fence are more representational of our true history. SORRY