Archive for May, 2007
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
It’s just one small word…
It’s been a busy week in Borroloola and there’s little chance things’ll slow down soon. The week started brilliantly as legal action by the Kurdanji people against the Xstrata mining company successfully put a stop to their plan to expand a current underground zinc mine into an ‘open cut’ operation. Such an expansion would have [...]
6 Comments » - Posted in Environment,Indigenous,Politics by jangari
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
Who’s Frank?
In yesterday’s cryptic crossword, I managed to finish off all but one clue. I subsequently cheated by looking at today’s paper, but I’m still a bit quite confused as to how the compiler came up with it. Which is where you, dear reader, come in. The clue was Measure nothing in Frank’s woodland plants (8). [...]
7 Comments » - Posted in Nothing in particular by jangari
Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
More Traditional Weather; Health
I noted back here that the Bureau of Meteorology had included on their website a page called Indigenous Weather Knowledge, that describes the annual weather patterns known to Aboriginal people in a given area. Since then, the BOM have included another group, the Brambuk from the Gariwerd / Grampians National Park in Victoria. This morning [...]
