A couple of comments: 1/ about the working conditions on Ivanhoe Stn - yes the staff worked for food/rations. They did get some money/wages - to go into Wyndham to buy clothes/boots etc. In the period before the 1967 Referendum the indigenous people were not allowed alcohol. 2/ The Diversion Dam - if you study it you will realise that the 20 gates are constructed in a convex shape - most dams are concave. The reason for the reverse shape was to allow the silt/earth/rocks to be flushed out of the lake bed (before the Ord Top Dam - Lake Argyle) was completed in 1972. Since that time the Diversion Dam is only flushed two or occasionally three times per year - it depends upon dam levels and needs for irrigation water. Great video. Thanks
Nice video i grew up on Mable and Lissadell station and done my trade in Kununurra i will go back for a visit one day I have fond memories of the place Jim Davis
I drove here in 1984 with a friend, and at dusk we picked up some indigenous locals who burned a few large fire's near the main road for attention to us. Realy have font memories about that moment. Two blokes went in the back and one every five minutes or so asked me for some Rollo of Tobacco, and one female seated infront next to us. Her name was Fiona and she sold me for a few box a fine hand crafted Boab nut with some native animals crafted and ingraved on it. They asked if we could bring them to a local pub near to a river, and so we did. Yust before leaving our car she unexpectedly pinched my polaroid sun glasses, and said she would return it to me if we picked them up the very next day. She thought this was some garanty for her and her friends. Bud we never went back cause we where on scedul to go to Darwin soon that week.
i really want to go up north and visit this region and this town, i have heard it is beautiful! it is so sad what europeans did to this land and its inhabitants..
im so sorry for the indigenous community, im so sorry my ancestors have destroyed this land of yours, this land you value as sacred, why wouldnt you? i grew up their, i value it the same way, its sacred. One farmer was saying how amazing it is to have this water 'on tap' im sorry that this land has been flooded to provide this. Im so fricking sorry, i wish i could take it back, id do, and i DO, anything to take it back!
A couple of comments: 1/ about the working conditions on Ivanhoe Stn - yes the staff worked for food/rations. They did get some money/wages - to go into Wyndham to buy clothes/boots etc. In the period before the 1967 Referendum the indigenous people were not allowed alcohol. 2/ The Diversion Dam - if you study it you will realise that the 20 gates are constructed in a convex shape - most dams are concave. The reason for the reverse shape was to allow the silt/earth/rocks to be flushed out of the lake bed (before the Ord Top Dam - Lake Argyle) was completed in 1972. Since that time the Diversion Dam is only flushed two or occasionally three times per year - it depends upon dam levels and needs for irrigation water. Great video. Thanks
Nice video i grew up on Mable and Lissadell station and done my trade in Kununurra i will go back for a visit one day I have fond memories of the place Jim Davis
It's pretty sad the way the indigenous folk have been displaced. I assume they have some access to their homelands.
nice video. its the greatest town in oz i believe...
I drove here in 1984 with a friend, and at dusk we picked up some indigenous locals who burned a few large fire's near the main road for attention to us. Realy have font memories about that moment. Two blokes went in the back and one every five minutes or so asked me for some Rollo of Tobacco, and one female seated infront next to us. Her name was Fiona and she sold me for a few box a fine hand crafted Boab nut with some native animals crafted and ingraved on it. They asked if we could bring them to a local pub near to a river, and so we did. Yust before leaving our car she unexpectedly pinched my polaroid sun glasses, and said she would return it to me if we picked them up the very next day. She thought this was some garanty for her and her friends. Bud we never went back cause we where on scedul to go to Darwin soon that week.
Dam sad ending..... Thank you for this video.
I would rather listen to the real stories off the kununarra region the stories off it's people
i really want to go up north and visit this region and this town, i have heard it is beautiful! it is so sad what europeans did to this land and its inhabitants..
im so sorry for the indigenous community, im so sorry my ancestors have destroyed this land of yours, this land you value as sacred, why wouldnt you? i grew up their, i value it the same way, its sacred. One farmer was saying how amazing it is to have this water 'on tap' im sorry that this land has been flooded to provide this. Im so fricking sorry, i wish i could take it back, id do, and i DO, anything to take it back!