cont'd ...

Joe,

The best that I will do is:

http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/asset/video/4633

And -

http://cass.anu.edu.au/files/video/bill-gammage-discusses-biggest-estate-earth

Foxy,

Bill's video: I couldn't find any evidence of farming. Setting fire to the bush, yes. Of course burning the bush in order to flush out animals, would favour some plants, fire-tolerant plants like eucalypts, while killing off others. Are you claiming that this is farming ? Do you mean that people intentionally opened up the bush, and 'therefore' farmed ?

Is that it ? Are you serious ?

Joe

Dear Loudmouth,

Wait a second. To get you to even contemplate that the girls had even left the home to walk to the fence we had to go through tortuous lengths and all through it you continually slandered the author.

In the end you accepted you were wrong to a degree at least and it turns out you had read the book and the references earlier but your jaundiced eye had not picked up the comprehensive research that went in to it.

Now you are doing the same with Pascoe. It is unedifying in the extreme and you should be ashamed of yourself.

Based on previous form it will take you reading the book yourself to get you to shift. So why don't you save us all the grief and go beg, borrow, steal or even god forbid pay for the bloody thing and inform yourself.

Foxy should not be slave to your ignorance. Go away and educate yourself.

Hi Steele,

Thanks for your irrelevant spray. On the Rabbit Fence story, I disagreed that the girls got to Jigalong by following one of the fences. I suspect that they found the road near Meekatharra (there seemed to be more references to Meekatharra than to the Fence, in the parts of the book dealing with that period in the journey), and got lifts, bit by bit, to Jigalong. But I have no evidence, so I'll have to go with the conventional narrative until some turns up, perhaps once the Protector's Correspondence is available in 2033, presuming that there is a 100-year rule in WA, like the rule here in SA.

No, I won't be reading Pascoe's book, not until someone simply tells me the gist: with some evidence of Aboriginal farming, I might take some notice. Evidence, according to fairly conventional definitions of 'farming' and not ducking and diving. Aboriginal affairs has been damned with too many scams already.

Why is it so important for you that I must believe without question ?

Joe

Joe,

The problem is not that you must believe without
question but that you have a closed mind to not even
allow yourself to test the waters so to speak.
Why are you so afraid of reading and learning for
yourself what the man has written? Why should we
have to prove anything to you. You're intelligent
enough I presume to make your own decisions.
But you can't do that without taking up the
challenge and reading the material for yourself.
Yet here you are passing judgement on something you
haven't even read.

That I find very puzzling. Why is it so important
to you not to read?

Foxy,

Perhaps Joe has better things to do with his time, I know that I do.