Season 9 ~ Episode #72 - - - Most Isolated People on Earth

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K-ModPermalink Reply by Gumbo123 on April 19, 2016 at 11:46am

Today's Listening Assignment:

MIDNIGHT OIL - - - band from Australia, lead singer Peter Garrett has a Law Degree and is an activist in support of the self-governing rights of the Aboriginal people. Their album DEISEL AND DUST focused on the need for recognition by white Australia of past injustices involving the Aboriginal nation and the need for reconciliation. This song is probably the best known and a good example of their cause . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E

BEDS ARE BURNING - - "Beds Are Burning" is a protest song in support of giving native Australian lands back to the Pintupi, who were among the very last people to come in from the desert. These 'last contact' people began moving from the Gibson Desert to settlements and missions in the 1930s. More were forcibly moved during the 1950s and 1960s to the Papunya settlement. In 1981, they left to return to their own country and established the Kintore community, which is nestled in the picturesque Kintore Ranges, surrounded by Mulga and Spinifex country. It is a community with a population of about 400. Kintore and the town of Yuendumu are mentioned by name in the lyrics, as are vehicles produced by the Holden company.