I put together my footage from the bus trip into a short video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwYQEQ-kRCc
sound:
Blue King Brown
Xavier Rudd
Speakers from bus and conference
-Louisa
Monday, August 16, 2010
Thursday, July 15, 2010
Update on blockade
Photos of the action are here
Protesters say they won't move or leave until the locked-on man is released without charge.
Reporters from the local newspaper, the Roxby Downs Monitor, have arrived. A huge road train carrying cement into the mine site is sitting outside unable to enter.
Protesters blockading Olympic Dam uranium mine!
***Media Alert***
15/07/2010
Contact: Zane Alcorn 0401 466 831
A bus load of 40 people from the East Coast of Australia are staging a protest against the expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium mine.
The protesters, who have been travelling through central Australia on an Indigenous Solidarity ride for the past two weeks, are blocking the front gates of the mine, they have created a human sign in a colourful protest.
The purpose is to highlight the catastrophic effects the mine and its expansion would have on Traditional Owners, their land and future generations.
Zane Alcorn, spokesperson for the Indigenous Solidarity Rides, said: “Not only is the expansion at Olympic Dam going ahead without the consent of Traditional Owners, but forty million litres of water per day is being sucked out of the Artesian Basin on Arabunna land to service the mine. Australia is the driest continent on the earth and faces a massive water shortage. It is ludicrous that we are literally exporting our sacred and precious water.
“The Melbourne based group Beyond Zero Emissions have done what the Government should have, and that is draw up a plan for running Australia on 100% renewables, namely wind and baseload solar. Uranium mining and nuclear energy cost more than renewables and are a completely redundant industry. This mine needs to be shut down, not expanded.”
Catrina Staurmberg, also on the bus, said: “This is a toxic mine, no one is safe. Radioactive material does not discriminate. If the open-cut expansion or any kind of uranium mining continues it will put many lives at risk across the country. For every tonne of uranium produced, 660 tonnes of radioactive tailings waste remains behind. This waste is NOT carefully contained. It literally piles up in the outback. Here it may be out of sight of most Australians, but watch New Zealand’s snowy peaks glow pink when the winds blow eastwards, and know that this is not just desert dust.”
“The toxicity of tailings waste, risk of contamination and commercial consumption of precious water, all adds up to a poisonous industry that must be shut down.”
For media inquiries and interview contact: Zane Alcorn on 0401 466 831, or Catrina Straumberg on 0437 772 164.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Defending Indigenous Rights: Land, Law, Culture
After over a week on the road, the NSW Indigenous Solidarity Bus reached Alice Springs on the evening of Wednesday, July 7th, in time for the final two days of the Defending Indigenous Rights convergence at Yirara College which ran from 6th - 9th July. Arriving just in time for dinner, we were warmly greeted by organisers and fellow activists. This warmth was a relief from the bitter cold outside - the day before we arrived was the coldest in Alice's history, reaching a top of just 6.3 degrees! Fortunately we were able to set up camp on an undercover basketball court alongside fellow Solidarity Bus riders from Queensland.
The Defending Indigenous Rights convergence was called to bring together community leaders from across the Northern Territory and Indigenous solidarity activists from across the country, with a major focus on fighting back against the NT Intervention. Aboriginal community leaders such as Harry Nelson, Murray George, Barb Shaw, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Richard Downs — along with many others — addressed and facilitated forums covering the full scope of attacks on Aboriginal people, their land, culture and language. Issues as diverse as the basics card, the 'Jobs for Justice' campaign, uranium mining and dumping on indigenous territory, Indigenous health and community-controlled health programs and employment initiatives and deaths in custody were covered by forums and workshops.
Activists from the NSW bus were able to take part in workshops and plenaries discussing where the movement for Indigenous rights should go from here, as well as helping out with the convergence's logistics - feeding over 200 people is no mean feat! One of the highlights of our two days at the conference was a film by Chris Graham, former National Indigenous Times editor, which outlined how the 2006 Insight report on child abuse at Mutitjulu, which sparked the Intervention, used fabricated sources and false information. This film had been screened while we were on the road from Alice, and was repeated on our first morning at the convergence.
Another key issue which Solidarity Bus riders heard about was the attacks on bilingual education which are part of the NT Intervention. On Thursday morning the convergence was addressed by teachers and community leaders from across the NT, who compared the unruly English-only classes in remote communities to those which are taught in traditional languages, in which students are attentive and well-behaved. Drawing on historic links between the Aboriginal Rights movement and trade unions, the convergence called on the Australian Education Union to support teachers who refuse to implement the ban on bilingual education. Our resident graffiti artist and organiser extraordinaire Zane did up a statement supporting teachers on the side of our bus - joining those calling for real jobs and self determination.
Other resolutions were passed on the final day of the conference, with a particular emphasis on the Intervention, the upcoming federal elections and a national day of action to be called for September, before we loaded up the Solidarity Buses for a trip to Todd Mall to take part in a 300-strong rally and march calling for an end to the Intervention. The atmosphere on the brief trip into town was great, with a guitar passing hands and anthems of the struggle such as Blackfella/Whitefella and From Little Things Big Things Grow having the whole bus singing along. We reached the rally all pumped up and ready for action, and it didn't disappoint. Although the local media has not yet responded to the action, it was highly visible and very loud: we took to the streets for over half an hour, after a range of speakers who had attended the convergence, before arriving at the end of NAIDOC week celebrations for a barbeque, performance and awards ceremony.
Some of the best parts of the convergence were musically inclined; Neil Murray, legendary musician and one of the founding members of the Warumpi band, played several Warumpi band songs for the gathering, including a beautiful duet of My Island Home with a local singer, as part of the convergence's agenda. But we also shared moments of connection outside of the formal schedule; each evening bus trippers, activists and indigenous campaigners gathered around the campfire for music and, on our final night, roasted potatoes and Kangaroo tail. Informal meetings and discussions between activists and campaigners such as these, alongside the political outcomes of the convergence, are of great importance in breaking through the divisive race-card politics of both major parties.
We finally got together on Saturday morning for a farewell photo with the bus and a big clean-up session before packing our bags and heading off. Several trippers were able to hitch or hire their way to the walk-off camp at Ampilatwatja, while the rest of us spent a day and night sight-seeing before stopping in at Mount Nancy.
The Defending Indigenous Rights convergence was called to bring together community leaders from across the Northern Territory and Indigenous solidarity activists from across the country, with a major focus on fighting back against the NT Intervention. Aboriginal community leaders such as Harry Nelson, Murray George, Barb Shaw, Uncle Kevin Buzzacott and Richard Downs — along with many others — addressed and facilitated forums covering the full scope of attacks on Aboriginal people, their land, culture and language. Issues as diverse as the basics card, the 'Jobs for Justice' campaign, uranium mining and dumping on indigenous territory, Indigenous health and community-controlled health programs and employment initiatives and deaths in custody were covered by forums and workshops.
Activists from the NSW bus were able to take part in workshops and plenaries discussing where the movement for Indigenous rights should go from here, as well as helping out with the convergence's logistics - feeding over 200 people is no mean feat! One of the highlights of our two days at the conference was a film by Chris Graham, former National Indigenous Times editor, which outlined how the 2006 Insight report on child abuse at Mutitjulu, which sparked the Intervention, used fabricated sources and false information. This film had been screened while we were on the road from Alice, and was repeated on our first morning at the convergence.
Another key issue which Solidarity Bus riders heard about was the attacks on bilingual education which are part of the NT Intervention. On Thursday morning the convergence was addressed by teachers and community leaders from across the NT, who compared the unruly English-only classes in remote communities to those which are taught in traditional languages, in which students are attentive and well-behaved. Drawing on historic links between the Aboriginal Rights movement and trade unions, the convergence called on the Australian Education Union to support teachers who refuse to implement the ban on bilingual education. Our resident graffiti artist and organiser extraordinaire Zane did up a statement supporting teachers on the side of our bus - joining those calling for real jobs and self determination.
Other resolutions were passed on the final day of the conference, with a particular emphasis on the Intervention, the upcoming federal elections and a national day of action to be called for September, before we loaded up the Solidarity Buses for a trip to Todd Mall to take part in a 300-strong rally and march calling for an end to the Intervention. The atmosphere on the brief trip into town was great, with a guitar passing hands and anthems of the struggle such as Blackfella/Whitefella and From Little Things Big Things Grow having the whole bus singing along. We reached the rally all pumped up and ready for action, and it didn't disappoint. Although the local media has not yet responded to the action, it was highly visible and very loud: we took to the streets for over half an hour, after a range of speakers who had attended the convergence, before arriving at the end of NAIDOC week celebrations for a barbeque, performance and awards ceremony.
Some of the best parts of the convergence were musically inclined; Neil Murray, legendary musician and one of the founding members of the Warumpi band, played several Warumpi band songs for the gathering, including a beautiful duet of My Island Home with a local singer, as part of the convergence's agenda. But we also shared moments of connection outside of the formal schedule; each evening bus trippers, activists and indigenous campaigners gathered around the campfire for music and, on our final night, roasted potatoes and Kangaroo tail. Informal meetings and discussions between activists and campaigners such as these, alongside the political outcomes of the convergence, are of great importance in breaking through the divisive race-card politics of both major parties.
We finally got together on Saturday morning for a farewell photo with the bus and a big clean-up session before packing our bags and heading off. Several trippers were able to hitch or hire their way to the walk-off camp at Ampilatwatja, while the rest of us spent a day and night sight-seeing before stopping in at Mount Nancy.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Students of Sustainability, RADelaide
by Jay Fletcher, Wollongong
The bus pulled into Flinders University at around 9.30pm on Saturday night July 3, we were greeted by cheers from people in the car park and the organisers boarded the bus to promise us a hot meal and showers. A film crew that was working on a documentary about Richard Downs and the walk-off filmed up disembarking and promised to catch up with us again in Alice Springs.
The following day, about 80 people attended the “Aboriginal Resistance Today: the Alyawarr walk-off” to hear Richard Downs discuss the frontier of the anti-intervention campaign. Richard spoke about the gross injustice of forcing Aboriginal communities onto 40-year leases by starving them of essential and basic services if they refuse.
“It’s blackmail is what it is,” he said. “My people tried to engage with the bureaucrats and their government, but we’ve been denied and denied and we decided we wouldn’t tolerate this.”
Several Aboriginal people in the audience reiterated Richard’s call for unity among Aboriginal rights campaigners, and that solidarity and organised opposition to the government’s laws and policy was necessary. The change of prime minister meant nothing to him, he said.
“I’ve got no respect for Julia”, he said. “They won’t change unless we force them to.”
Richard reported that people from right across the Northern Territory and the rest of the country would be arriving in Alice next week, and many people in the room said they were attending (including people not on the bus).
That night more than 50 people, both bus participants and people from the conference, packed the solidarity bus to get along to the “Rap Intervention”, a benefit gig for the walk-off. Local and interstate performances were phenomenal (including Adelaide-based Local Revolution and Doc Fruit – AKA the Indigenous Solidarity Rides’ very own Zane Alcorn). Richard Downs also addressed the gig, and got massive cheers when he declared that the racist Labor government had to go and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people needed to work together to create justice.
There were many other inspiring Aboriginal speakers at the conference, including Arabunna elders discussing the fight against the uranium mine at Roxby Downs. Zane, the bus organiser, told the workshop that our return trip will be via Roxby on July 16, and expressed the possibility of meeting with the campaign groups and media on our way through.
Tonight is our final night. The bus is almost packed, anticipating the very early 6am start to get to Coober Pedy. We’ll camp there overnight and shoot through to Alice Springs in time for an evening film and forum.
So to cover the trip so far: Newcastle/Sydney => Cowra and a meeting with Uncle Chappy Willams on the campaign to save Lake Cowal => Wilcannia => Mutawinji, a beautiful national park, and a meeting with Steve (from Arhnem Land, who we met by chance but who spoke about his experience teaching English and was strongly opposed to abolishing bilingual education and forcing kids to learn English) => Adelaide and two days of radical action and info at SOS!
The bus pulled into Flinders University at around 9.30pm on Saturday night July 3, we were greeted by cheers from people in the car park and the organisers boarded the bus to promise us a hot meal and showers. A film crew that was working on a documentary about Richard Downs and the walk-off filmed up disembarking and promised to catch up with us again in Alice Springs.
The following day, about 80 people attended the “Aboriginal Resistance Today: the Alyawarr walk-off” to hear Richard Downs discuss the frontier of the anti-intervention campaign. Richard spoke about the gross injustice of forcing Aboriginal communities onto 40-year leases by starving them of essential and basic services if they refuse.
“It’s blackmail is what it is,” he said. “My people tried to engage with the bureaucrats and their government, but we’ve been denied and denied and we decided we wouldn’t tolerate this.”
Several Aboriginal people in the audience reiterated Richard’s call for unity among Aboriginal rights campaigners, and that solidarity and organised opposition to the government’s laws and policy was necessary. The change of prime minister meant nothing to him, he said.
“I’ve got no respect for Julia”, he said. “They won’t change unless we force them to.”
Richard reported that people from right across the Northern Territory and the rest of the country would be arriving in Alice next week, and many people in the room said they were attending (including people not on the bus).
That night more than 50 people, both bus participants and people from the conference, packed the solidarity bus to get along to the “Rap Intervention”, a benefit gig for the walk-off. Local and interstate performances were phenomenal (including Adelaide-based Local Revolution and Doc Fruit – AKA the Indigenous Solidarity Rides’ very own Zane Alcorn). Richard Downs also addressed the gig, and got massive cheers when he declared that the racist Labor government had to go and Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people needed to work together to create justice.
There were many other inspiring Aboriginal speakers at the conference, including Arabunna elders discussing the fight against the uranium mine at Roxby Downs. Zane, the bus organiser, told the workshop that our return trip will be via Roxby on July 16, and expressed the possibility of meeting with the campaign groups and media on our way through.
Tonight is our final night. The bus is almost packed, anticipating the very early 6am start to get to Coober Pedy. We’ll camp there overnight and shoot through to Alice Springs in time for an evening film and forum.
So to cover the trip so far: Newcastle/Sydney => Cowra and a meeting with Uncle Chappy Willams on the campaign to save Lake Cowal => Wilcannia => Mutawinji, a beautiful national park, and a meeting with Steve (from Arhnem Land, who we met by chance but who spoke about his experience teaching English and was strongly opposed to abolishing bilingual education and forcing kids to learn English) => Adelaide and two days of radical action and info at SOS!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Bus participants: Inspired and taking action
Over the last six days, the Indigenous Solidarity Rides have travelled from Newcastle and Sydney, through NSW to Adelaide. Along the way, we have met with and heard stories from Aboriginal people waging huge struggles for their rights, land and culture. Below are some responses from bus trip participants and what they have learned and gained from the trip so far.
"I've been having a great time. I didn't know how full on it would be. I travelled with the Just Transition Tour last year, but I'm only just starting."
Rob Martin, Central Coast
"This is a memory that will live on, one of the best memories. We all have different reasons to be here, but we have one mission: we have all recognised that Aboriginal people have the right to live their life, as was done before white settlement, or as ever they want. We need to respect that."
Adrian, Newcastle
"This trip has been awesome. Everyone is concerned, and even the people here who didn't know a lot about what was going on with the NT intervention, they've now been inspired to do more about it. I didn't know what to expect, but the people on the bus are a good crew. We're going to Alice but along the way we're having debates about how to change society for the better."
Aaron Roden, Sydney
"The bus rides have been a huge opportunity to raise awareness about what the NT intervention is doing to the lives of Aboriginal people. It really brings the issue back into the foreground, and we've found that the response to the bus trip has been overwhelmingly positive. People are re-addressing the government's policy and realising the need for radical change."
Jay Fletcher, Wollongong
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Day 1-4: Aboriginal communities in NSW
by Stephen Brangrove
This is the first official report from the Aboriginal solidarity bus. The bus left Newcastle Civic Station on June 30, and headed south to pick up the rest of the New South Wales contingency from Hornsby. Twenty-five people from Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour and Bellingen packed the little red school bus, along with three weeks worth of food and camping gear. It was joined by two more vehicles to make up the Indigenous Solidarity Rides 2010.
From there we had an 8 hour trip out to Cowra, west of Bathurst, where we met with Uncle Chappy (Neville Williams), a staunch community leader leading a fight against one of the largest transnational mining corporations. Uncle Chappy gave a talk to us later in the night where he discussed local environmental issues associated with the Barrack Gold mine at Lake Cowal.
This particular mine has been in operation from 3 years, however it still uses cyanide in the process of extracting gold from harvested ore. This technique has been banned in most western countries in Europe and the US, because of the high probability of cyanide leaching into underground watertable. The main concern in this situation is the possibility that these highly poisonous compounds leaching into the Murray Darling basin. This basin extends throughout most of New South Wales and even water tables of surrounding states.
Not only is this mining practice primitive, Uncle Chappy explained that the fluid waste pit where all this cyanide waste is stored has not been designed to handle possible major flooding events. This is a very serious issue, because in a hypothetical flood event the basin could spill and flow directing into the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan rivers, where removal would be impossible. This would mean high concentrations of cyanide would pollute river systems down stream and enter most if not all estuary environments effecting things like state fisheries and local communities living along the river who depend on it for a source of fresh water for drinking and irrigation.
This mine has also directly affected the local Aboriginal people, the Wiradjuri: the mine, which is under expansion, desecrates sacred Aboriginal land, proven to contin many artefacts, some of which are claimed to be older than the Egyptian pyramids.
The next day we headed to the small NSW town of Wilcannia, where we were hosted by the local Lands Council in their community art centre. There were a few mechanical issues with the bus (the petrol filter needed to be replaced. On top of that I lost the petrol tank cap, however thanks to a pair of my underwear, three rubber bans and half of an empty coke bottle we rigged up a cap and got the old girl back on the road.) In the end we arrived pretty late, but cooked up some dinner and camped in the hall.
The next morning Uncle David Clark, a local Wilcannia community leader and youth worker, gave an informative and passionate speech on the local history of the area and his people. He spoke of the severe racism and segregation that plagued the community for many years, conditions that forced Uncle Dave to move away. His return to the area in 2002 has resulted in a more optimistic agenda for the future of the community. You may remember Clark when he took on once Liberal Premier Nick Grinner when he tried to abolish land rights during the 1980s.
Wilcannia was established in 1957. The early history of the town was extremely racist towards the local Aboriginal people living in – and often on the outskirts of – the town. Such examples of this are the separate shower blocks for Aboriginal people – both men and women, reports of local commerce not trading with these groups and racist police initiations where young boys who turned 18 would have ferulaceous charges place upon them. These were commonly trumped up charges such as being drunk and disorderly and resisting arrest. In Murray Norris’ memoirs, he writes of a very similar scenario when writing about the 1970s Aboriginal leader Fred Waters. “We have found over the years that when an Aboriginal became a spokesman for his people he didn’t last long afterwards. He was either sent back to the bush or framed up on some charge and send over to Delissavile, a so-called convict settlement over the harbour” (Darwin).
Clark, however, was deeply reflective of Australia’s apartheid history spoke with inspiration when reporting on the achievements of his struggle. The agenda of the Wilcannia community have been working both within the system to purchase land in and around the town where they aim to construct a community where relationships are built on Aboriginal ideals of compassion and sharing. An agenda like this is to use the 61 house they purchased to be renovated and then ‘given’ to families in need of real housing. This scheme aims to sell these houses without interest where they can then be eventually paid back in a socially sustainable manner. Sustainable development also extends to the environmental side as well, where David Clark along with the Wilcannia community have been campaigning to have the local weir of the Murray Darling river dredged to re-establish the rivers integrity so they may use it as a fresh water supply instead of using the $3.5 million boar construction proposed by the local council, which is a far more unsustainable practice and does not protect the Darling basin from shrinking further.
These are a few of just some simple but thought out ideas presented by the Wilcannia community. The aim is to work toward the conservation of their history, culture and environment, and sustainable development.
Though we are aiming to get to Alice and hear about life under the NT intervention, the communities we have encountered show the broad an varying range of issues Aboriginal people face.
However, we on the bus have high optimism for their current and continuing struggle and look forward to building stronger links with the people we have met, and also the many we are yet to hear and learn from.
Now we heading to Adelaide, and from there to Alice.
This is the first official report from the Aboriginal solidarity bus. The bus left Newcastle Civic Station on June 30, and headed south to pick up the rest of the New South Wales contingency from Hornsby. Twenty-five people from Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong, Port Macquarie, Coffs Harbour and Bellingen packed the little red school bus, along with three weeks worth of food and camping gear. It was joined by two more vehicles to make up the Indigenous Solidarity Rides 2010.
From there we had an 8 hour trip out to Cowra, west of Bathurst, where we met with Uncle Chappy (Neville Williams), a staunch community leader leading a fight against one of the largest transnational mining corporations. Uncle Chappy gave a talk to us later in the night where he discussed local environmental issues associated with the Barrack Gold mine at Lake Cowal.
This particular mine has been in operation from 3 years, however it still uses cyanide in the process of extracting gold from harvested ore. This technique has been banned in most western countries in Europe and the US, because of the high probability of cyanide leaching into underground watertable. The main concern in this situation is the possibility that these highly poisonous compounds leaching into the Murray Darling basin. This basin extends throughout most of New South Wales and even water tables of surrounding states.
Not only is this mining practice primitive, Uncle Chappy explained that the fluid waste pit where all this cyanide waste is stored has not been designed to handle possible major flooding events. This is a very serious issue, because in a hypothetical flood event the basin could spill and flow directing into the Murrumbidgee and Lachlan rivers, where removal would be impossible. This would mean high concentrations of cyanide would pollute river systems down stream and enter most if not all estuary environments effecting things like state fisheries and local communities living along the river who depend on it for a source of fresh water for drinking and irrigation.
This mine has also directly affected the local Aboriginal people, the Wiradjuri: the mine, which is under expansion, desecrates sacred Aboriginal land, proven to contin many artefacts, some of which are claimed to be older than the Egyptian pyramids.
The next day we headed to the small NSW town of Wilcannia, where we were hosted by the local Lands Council in their community art centre. There were a few mechanical issues with the bus (the petrol filter needed to be replaced. On top of that I lost the petrol tank cap, however thanks to a pair of my underwear, three rubber bans and half of an empty coke bottle we rigged up a cap and got the old girl back on the road.) In the end we arrived pretty late, but cooked up some dinner and camped in the hall.
The next morning Uncle David Clark, a local Wilcannia community leader and youth worker, gave an informative and passionate speech on the local history of the area and his people. He spoke of the severe racism and segregation that plagued the community for many years, conditions that forced Uncle Dave to move away. His return to the area in 2002 has resulted in a more optimistic agenda for the future of the community. You may remember Clark when he took on once Liberal Premier Nick Grinner when he tried to abolish land rights during the 1980s.
Wilcannia was established in 1957. The early history of the town was extremely racist towards the local Aboriginal people living in – and often on the outskirts of – the town. Such examples of this are the separate shower blocks for Aboriginal people – both men and women, reports of local commerce not trading with these groups and racist police initiations where young boys who turned 18 would have ferulaceous charges place upon them. These were commonly trumped up charges such as being drunk and disorderly and resisting arrest. In Murray Norris’ memoirs, he writes of a very similar scenario when writing about the 1970s Aboriginal leader Fred Waters. “We have found over the years that when an Aboriginal became a spokesman for his people he didn’t last long afterwards. He was either sent back to the bush or framed up on some charge and send over to Delissavile, a so-called convict settlement over the harbour” (Darwin).
Clark, however, was deeply reflective of Australia’s apartheid history spoke with inspiration when reporting on the achievements of his struggle. The agenda of the Wilcannia community have been working both within the system to purchase land in and around the town where they aim to construct a community where relationships are built on Aboriginal ideals of compassion and sharing. An agenda like this is to use the 61 house they purchased to be renovated and then ‘given’ to families in need of real housing. This scheme aims to sell these houses without interest where they can then be eventually paid back in a socially sustainable manner. Sustainable development also extends to the environmental side as well, where David Clark along with the Wilcannia community have been campaigning to have the local weir of the Murray Darling river dredged to re-establish the rivers integrity so they may use it as a fresh water supply instead of using the $3.5 million boar construction proposed by the local council, which is a far more unsustainable practice and does not protect the Darling basin from shrinking further.
These are a few of just some simple but thought out ideas presented by the Wilcannia community. The aim is to work toward the conservation of their history, culture and environment, and sustainable development.
Though we are aiming to get to Alice and hear about life under the NT intervention, the communities we have encountered show the broad an varying range of issues Aboriginal people face.
However, we on the bus have high optimism for their current and continuing struggle and look forward to building stronger links with the people we have met, and also the many we are yet to hear and learn from.
Now we heading to Adelaide, and from there to Alice.
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