Bendigo. CITY OF GOLD!
Dear reader,
another scintillating fragment from the upper reaches of the North West Frontier. This one giving an indication via the wonders of cadastral certainty the origins of the enigmatic author who goes by the name of “Frank”. And for those of you who can’t be bothered reading there is mention of GOLD! In a pre-election time-frame this is as valuable as ‘FRANKING CREDITS’, a ‘GAS LED RECOVERY’ and ‘CLEAN COAL’ in setting the future direction of this nation. So read on, and perhaps hidden in these lines is the illusive code that will lead you to Lasseters Reef and beyond. read on….
Hi friends and Romans,
At the top of the shelves housing my rock collection the following quote of unknown source is stuck:
Lasseter, in the noble tradition of Laurie Connell.
Rocks. They is a beautiful part of God’s creation- not to be taken for granite.
Frank, out and about on the North West Frontier
Some of you have been following the Musical Dispatches from the Front for more than a decade. I started these in 2007, when the Intervention was foisted on remote Aboriginal Australia, as a form of counter-propaganda and to let off steam and share a laugh.
Yuendumu is halfway between The Granites and Alice Springs where I find myself in lockdown. A FIFO (fly in fly out) worker who lives in Bendigo Victoria flew to Brisbane where he caught the virus in a quarantine hotel before flying to the Granites Gold Mine where, although he was showing no symptoms, he infected several fellow mine workers.
Lasseters Cave, not yet blown to bits by Rio Tinto.
The Granites gold field rates much mention in the book many of you are about to receive. Every dark cloud has a silver lining, not a single Yuendumu resident works at the mine!
Spoiler alert! To me the most relevant paragraph to the Newmont (the largest gold mining company in the world) Tanami operations in ‘My Yuendumu Story’ is:
Why, “We’ll let you work for us and help us make an obscene amount of money by removing non-renewable resources from your land”, should be expected to induce paroxysms of gratitude in Yapa, I fail to understand.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u925g6CgKuw Neil Young- Heart of Gold
See y’all
The Intervention. GOLD!!! For Bureaucrats and the Incarcertation Sausage machine…
Frank