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13 January 2004

Cuban Doctors and Aboriginal Trackers

Cuba often sends it's doctors overseas to help sick folk in other countries. They do it for free, even though they don't have much money themselves. I think it would be good if Australia had a government funded program that was similar but involved Aboriginal trackers. I was just reading about the guy who the police think might have killed Peter Falconio back while Dad, Stella, Anne and I were wandering through Central Australia in 2001. They are using Aboriginal trackers to try and find the body. Tracking stuff is an important job. Aboriginal folk seem to have a knack for it. Why doesn't the government pay some of those folk to go overseas and help other countries find stuff they've lost? It would be interesting for the trackers. It would give Aboriginal people a slightly higher profile on that international stage thing. It would make other countries dislike us less. It's building Australia's intellectual capital. It might get some people off welfare, which is crappy for everyone.

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  1. i think its a great idea….do you think they’d do the same job on non-Aussie land? or is Mother Earth wherever?

    Helen / 1:23pm / 14 January 2004

  2. It would be trickier I think, but I suspect that most of the principles are the same. I have no idea what the principles are of course, but knowledge isn’t necessary for blind assumptions. I reckon that spending time simply noticing things in nature would make anyone a good tracker. Most of us just never bother.

    Ryan / 3:27pm / 14 January 2004

  3. hello

    I am looking for an aboriginal tracker person for a french documentary.
    I hope someone could help me to find a contact…

    Thanks
    Vanessa

    vanessa ESCALANTE / 6:12am / 23 February 2005

  4. I don’t know anything about it I’m afraid. Try contacting an Aboriginal group in Australia.

    Ryan / 7:24am / 23 February 2005

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