Dear Loudmouth,

So you found it. Thought so after the shift in tone. Oh well for the benefit of the rest this is a newspaper story in the Western Australian ran over a week after the three girls escaped;

“The Chief Protector of Aborigines (Mr. A.O. Neville) is concerned about three native girls, ranging from eight to 15 years of age, who, a week ago, ran away from the Moore River Native Settlement, Mogumber. They came in from the Nullagine district recently, Mr. Neville said yesterday, and, being very timid, were scared by their new quarters, apparently, and fled in the hope of getting back home. Some people saw them passing New Norcia, when they seemed to be heading north-east. The children would probably keep away from habitations and he would be grateful if any person who saw them would notify him promptly. “We have been searching high and low for the children for a week past,” added Mr. Neville, “and all the trace we found of them was a dead rabbit which they had been trying to eat. We are very anxious that no harm may come to them in the bush.”

The West Australian 11 Aug. 1931

Pity. I was enjoying you digging that hole.

Dear Foxy,

You might get a kick out of this young lass from England who this year decided to do the same walk as Molly and her cousins. The first video is a bit of a monage and the second is of her arriving at Jigalong to be met by Molly's daughter. She has very few views so watch if you get a chance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfjNEsN9tig

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPsC-pXkwOM

Still inspiring other after all these years.

Hi Steele,

I think you have delivered the knock out blow, "The West Australian 11 Aug. 1931". I will be most interested to read Joe's response.

Interesting YouTubes as well.

Now lets move onto the Peter Weir film 'GALLIPOLI' starring Mel Gibson. A story about three young Western Australian lads who joined the First AIF and went off to fight at Gallipoli. What a load of codswallop, fancy presenting that as fact, no doubt to perpetuate the myth that is Gallipoli. I can speak with authority on the subject as my Grand Uncle Jim was at Gallipoli, on our side, not the Turks. When I was about eight years old I plucked up the courage to ask uncle: "Uncle, what did you do at Gallipoli?" Being the crusty old "B" that he was, uncle replied in a gravelly deep voice: "Son...I kept my "F'n" HEAD DOWN!" I never asked uncle about the war ever again.

There's a myth about a Captain Cook ( obviously a joke name) and an Endeavour ship using an actual British troop transport during the American War of Independence and which was scuttled in a blockade of Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, in 1778. As of 2016 her wreck had not been precisely located but was thought to be one of a cluster of five in Newport Harbor, and searching continued. A replica of Endeavour was launched in 1994 and is berthed alongside the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney Harbour.

What a fake tourist industry that is.

Dear Steele and Paul,

You guys are truly awesome.

Reading your posts has made my day.

Cheering on doesn't make up for the complete lack of evidence to support 'The Rabbit Proof Fence' as anything else but a work of fiction. Even as a work of fiction it stretches the credulity far too much, requiring the reader to suspend his/her critical faculties far too often and far too far.

However all is not lost with such perfect examples of the 'Backfire Effect' mentioned earlier in the thread [at page 10],

"When Corrections Fail:
The persistence of political misperceptions"
Brendan Nyhan
University of Michigan
and
Jason Reifler
Georgia State University

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~nyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf