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After the crocodile cruise, we take a walk along a waterlogged trail to Nourlangie, an Aboriginal rock shelter dating back 20,000 years, which has several examples of rock art. At the main site the paintings focus on the legend of Namarrgon, or the Lightning Man, the fellow responsible for...
The challenge facing Burnett and crew is a bit like getting ready to do the second season of The Sopranos, except this time the original cast is gone, the whole world is trying to steal your ideas--oh, and this time you have to move to Moscow and make the...
1 CATHY FREEMAN You could argue--and we do--that the women's 400-m run in Sydney was the most sociopolitically burdened footrace since Jesse Owens ran upside Hitler. Under enormous pressure, the Aborigine Freeman came through magnificently in front of her cheering, weeping countrymen. She said she had...
A bit about her: she's an Aborigine, and Aborigines, the indigenous people of Australia, have been persecuted for much of the past two centuries; today they reside on the bottom rung of all ladders--socioeconomic, educational, political. Freeman, 27, has always been news in Australia, because Aboriginal athletes of...
The next morning, I saw the prime minister on TV. Howard's an arch-conservative and a monarchist, and you just know that it got right up his nose when Cathy was chosen to light the cauldron at Opening Ceremonies. But now he was saying, "Cathy Freeman is an Aborigine...