Long distance in time

We fail to register the change of lifestyle required for a Tiwi kid to south and study in a school like Downlands.

Have a look at life on the Tiwi Islands and the young ones are out bush Goose Shooting. Have a look at the on line movie: http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/video/video.php?v=108542092491139&ref=mf

This is normal everyday life for 'Traditional Aborigines' - or to be politically correct, 'Remote Area, English as a Second Language, Aborigines'.

Kids come down, pushed by their parents because there is no future in Modern Australia, living in the old manner.

Of course living 'Traditional' means you hunt with a rifle rather than a spear, and like the rest of us, you wear clothes made in china, but per preference rather than go to The Fridge, you pick up the Rifle when the family needs something to eat.

Now my mother was born in 1908 in the old gold mining town of Yackandandah. Her home then had no running water, no electricity and the kitchen had a dirt floor.

Her grandmother came from Ireland on an 'Orphan Ship' after the Irish Famine when Irleand when from 8m to 4m in a ten year period, dying of hunger, while England kept the grain price artificially high to protect the landowner and Ireland exported enough food to feed the hungry two times over. See the story of how Australia was populated by the starving Irish. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsMRCzbNDXc

This Grandmother landed in Australia barefoot and illiterate but she was better prepared to live in modern Australia than any 'Bush Aboriginal'. they say "Another Time, Another Country', so great is the Australian change from 1850 to 2010, but I have always felt that the latest Shri Lankan to stumble ashore in Australia is better fitted to survive in our culture, because they understand the language of the Cash Register. Pity those who like St Francis, do not care for the material things!

Yea Shri Lankans are Illegal Immigrants. 'Australia has always had trouble with Illegal Immigrants, ask any aboriginal'

If you Can you help fund the project: https://vinnies.org.au/appeals-processor-national indicate Qld, and pull down the Tiwi Education project option under Appeal.