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Indigenous
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The aborigines do not have much time. They are dying
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They are not separate from the land. When they lose it, they lose themselves
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They didn't own the land, the land owned them
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After 160 years of undeclared war on Aboriginal People
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Eddie should have been bitter and he was not
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Growth
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It was essential for me to develop beyond the archetypal creature ... to be sweet, pliable ... and door-matish
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I was beginning to feel that I was in control of events
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The last burning bridge back to my old self collapsed
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I melted into a feeling of belonging
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I had entered a new time, space, dimension
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Society
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I could sense a camouflaged violence in this town
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The blacks were unequivocally the enemy
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Why was everyone so goddamn affected by this trip
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I hated myself for my infernal cowardice in dealing with people
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I really did enjoy the company of animals better than people
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Environment
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The architectural ugliness
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All around me was magnificence
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Our greatest communication lay in the sheer joy of our surroundings
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Alien and threatening environment
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Identity
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It all seemed rather pointless ... The journey had lost all meaning
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No white person can fully enter Aboriginal reality
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Strength
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I realised that this trip was not a game
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Relationships
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I desperately wanted them to understand
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I needed people, wanted them
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Friendship ... amounts almost to religion
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Tearing myself away from them caused physical pain
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[Diggity] had taken the place of people
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I desperately needed to talk in depth with someone
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Charlie's Country
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Where's my house? Where's my job?
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Why did you come here, steal people's stuff, their land
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They go to school now
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You'll die far from your country
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No one left
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I'm not a recreational Shooter, I am a hunter
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You've got a job ... and you got a house ... on my land
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I would like to do it
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I want to go home now ... back to my own country ... where my place is
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I'm free now ... I have my own supermarket ... and this is my country
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You know you can't just sit on the grass all day ... Times have changed
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You are still trying to change our culture to your bastard culture
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Going to my mother country
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I have difficulty pronouncing foreign names
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