I clicked it on about 10 minutes in and was instantly bored.
Thought that maybe the Goodes interest factor might hold my attention, but I clicked away after 5 minutes
Does that make me a bad supporter?
I clicked it on about 10 minutes in and was instantly bored.
Thought that maybe the Goodes interest factor might hold my attention, but I clicked away after 5 minutes
Does that make me a bad supporter?
The difference between insanity and genius is measured only in success.
He had observed that people who did lie were, on the whole, more resourceful and ambitious and successful than people who did not lie.
He inherited the leadership gene
None of the episodes in this series fully explore both sides of a person's genealogy. The episodes focus on what the editors think make the most interesting viewing. There is always a lot of research left out of the show but the subject receives the benefit of the research.
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke
This article is interesting in that respect.
?What you see on the TV show is actually 20 per cent of the stuff they actually find,? Goodes said.
?Once this airs next Tuesday I then get the rest of the 80 per cent that they?ve found, and I get to learn so much more about other bits of my family history and ancestry, and there?s another part of my aboriginal ancestry that they didn?t even go into that shows how I?m related to Michael O?Loughlin.?
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment...-1227018451650
What Meg said.
One thing that stands out strongly for me in Adam's story is the ancestral need to educate (even GGGGG gave $2m to set up university). That seems to be a driving force in the story which stands firm today with the GO foundation.
It is a shame some found it boring. It is a white ancestral story as well. We need to know what happened. I come from First and Second Fleet stock (assisted passage scheme I call it) but that doesn't make it a lay down that I know enough about what happened in this country from then to now. All information needs to be told and knowledge shared to create greater understanding and empathy between all of us.
I do like Adam's calm. Almost an inner serenity. I find him an interesting man. Not like some of you lot,
If you've never jumped from one couch to the other to save yourself from lava then you didn't have a childhood
I have found myself thinking a lot about Adam's story today. Parts of aboriginal history that we know in general but which become much more immediate (and to some extent more shocking) when it is personalised through someone we feel we know and think of as one of us.
For example, Lisa Sansbury's tears on seeing photos of the parents she never knew because she was taken from them at 5 years old. Her need for identification with her people symbolised by the tattoo on her arm. Two aboriginal women who were part of Goodes' family tree, one from the Adnyamathanha people and the other from the Narungga people, both bearing children of white fathers outside of marriage. Adam's moving and appropriate comment that it both disappointed and angered him that white men had thought it good enough to bed aboriginal women but not good enough to bring those children up as their own.
Primmy is right, it is a white ancestral story as well.
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