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No more use for Aboriginal people
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"They had no more use for Aboriginal people," this is one of the first things Hityer Gordon said when I met him.
Hityer told me his story of when he was born in the desert a place called Lewis Creek and how the families got rounded up, like cattle, where they all had to work on the cattle station at Gordon Downs, just out of Ringers Oak. The government closed it down and the people got moved to the place what now is called Balgo. " Now They have no more use for Aboriginal people.."
Recently the Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, committed to closing down approximately 150 remote Aboriginal Communities in Western Australia. What will the future be? 29 June 2015. Kununurra, WA, Australia
©Ingetje Tadros
Hityer told me his story of when he was born in the desert a place called Lewis Creek and how the families got rounded up, like cattle, where they all had to work on the cattle station at Gordon Downs, just out of Ringers Oak. The government closed it down and the people got moved to the place what now is called Balgo. " Now They have no more use for Aboriginal people.."
Recently the Premier of Western Australia, Colin Barnett, committed to closing down approximately 150 remote Aboriginal Communities in Western Australia. What will the future be? 29 June 2015. Kununurra, WA, Australia
©Ingetje Tadros
