Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
> tm wrote: 
> > Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
> >>Kevin Gowen wrote:

> >>>What's Hall's Creek? Is that like Skid Row?
> > 
> >>It's a town in Western Australia. When I passed through, the population 
> >>was wandering aimlessly, drunk. The only sign I saw of humanity was two 
> >>people making sure that their buddy was standing up while he vomited so 
> >>that he wouldn't get himself messy. It looked like one of the zombie 
> >>crowd scenes from "Night of the Living Dead".
> > 
> > See, this is the problem with travelogs. They promise picturesque and 
> > it turns out to be a bus stop Burger King, they call it quaint and 
> > traditional and you sleep on the floor, you say 'population' and 
> > 'crowd', but then- 'the only sign of humanity was two people'.  

> I speak of humanity in a more metaphysical sense.

In the metaphysical sense that there is only two of them? But enough 
nitpicking, Hall's Creek is an an aboriginal town? Lots of longhairs 
playing digeridoos? Oh wait, that's somewhere else...
 
> To be fair, the aborigines I saw in most of the urban areas didn't seem
> to be treated significantly worse than any minority group in America,
> and seem to have the same range of opportunities as minority groups get
> anywhere: less than the majority, but not zero. There are areas in the
> outback where the aborigines suffer the same problems that American
> Indians on reservations are prone to, specifically alcoholism,
> unemployment, and general despair.

I'm thinking of visiting either Australia or NZ later this year, use 
up the ff points before the airlines go bankrupt. Any place you'd 
suggest as a must see? I've been to Canberra and seen postcards of the 
Sydney Opera House. Skip them.  I enjoy visiting american indian 
reservations and can easily fit in anywhere the population wanders 
aimlessly, drunk.