<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Try this link:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/05/11/4231553.htm">http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/2015/05/11/4231553.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, Frank, et al.</div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> frank bremner via OE <<a href="mailto:oe@lists.wedgeblade.net">oe@lists.wedgeblade.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Reply-To: </span> frank bremner <<a href="mailto:fjbremner@hotmail.com">fjbremner@hotmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Friday, May 15, 2015 at 11:49 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Dialogue ICA <<a href="mailto:oe@wedgeblade.net">oe@wedgeblade.net</a>>, Dialogue OE <<a href="mailto:dialogue@wedgeblade.net">dialogue@wedgeblade.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [Oe List ...] Remote communities in Australia<br></div><div><br></div><div><style><!--
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--></style><div class="hmmessage"><div dir="ltr">Greetings. Especially if you spent any time in northern Western Australia, at Mowanjum and/or Oombulgurri in the 70s-80s.<br> <br>Tony Abbott, our PM referred to remote communities as having "made lifestyle choices". You can check out the rest of his comments.<br> <br>The WA government has been closing down many remote communities. Again you can check the details.<br> <br>On this past Monday the ABC's flagship current affairs program, Four Corners, showed a story called <em><strong>Remote Hope</strong></em>, about the above situation. I managed to find it on ABC iView, where it will be available into June. The address is as follows:<br> <br><a href="http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/four-corners/NC15C">http://iview.abc.net.au/programs/four-corners/NC15C</a><br> <br>Although there have been problems with violence, sexual harassment, paedophilia and so on, the government bodies involved have not looked at "underlying contradictions" (to use an old phrase). The comments made by some of the locals, and by some agencies, show more maturity and understanding than the state and federal governments. <br> <br>We, as ICA, may have made mistakes in these places - eg our secretiveness within our "revolutionary" mindset, and our claims to be the best thing since sliced bread - but it makes interesting viewing.<br> <br>Meanwhile "ice" is an increasing problem across (white, and not-so-remote) Australia. Recently a top-level meeting was held at Mount Gambier, a rural city, about this issue.<br> <br>Best wishes<br> <br>Frank Bremner<br> </div></div></div>_______________________________________________
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