Everyone in our household knew that I was not to be interupted during last night's episode, and so it was viewed on both our TVs and within the opening minute they had all crept into our lounge room and were fixed on the big TV.
So, here's some comments from us all.
1. This should be compulsory viewing for all politicians of every party/non party, at local and state/territory and federal levels.
2. This should be compulsory viewing for all school students
3. This should be compulsory viewing for all government agencies staff
4. THIS PARTICULAR EPISODE should be nominated for a Walkley Award
http://www.walkleys.com/walkley-awards None of us felt able to get involved in the chat session at all, we were all still coming to terms with the fact that land originally occupied by his maternal forebears for generations and generations had been initially awarded back to her and then later colonial governments had taken it away again and again and again. We knew of the TINDALE efforts to map the languages to the locations but not of the Great Warrior connection to the $50 note.
Very very humbling experience to be privleged to have watched this episode. It was not just the best WDYTYA but the best factual program ever watched, and causes us all to rethink so much about how each of the six colonies separately determined how land was to be occupied, allocated, used, and mis-used.
JM
