Buenos dίas compañeros,

My attempt at writing a book is titled ‘Resilience- My Yuendumu Story’. It is in the late stages of gestation and I keep my fingers crossed it won’t be stillborn.

Herewith a vignette from the hopefully final draft:

A young man, having just returned from Yuendumu Police Station told Wendy dejectedly that he’d failed to get his car registered. The reason his application had been rejected was that he had unpaid fines. He’d been fined for driving an unregistered vehicle. He didn’t have enough money to pay for both his unpaid fines and the car registration.
“I hate the police...” said the young man to Wendy. Then a pause and in quick succession:
“I hate Centrelink, I hate the Government, I hate the Land Council ”.
I expect the young man would soon thereafter be again fined… for driving an unregistered vehicle. He may even go to jail for unpaid fines.

Pending legal advice I’m claiming the tome to be a work of fiction and any similarities to real people and events to be purely coincidental!

From George Orwell’s 1984:
“The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth”
Echoed by Lucky Dube:
When lies becomes truth- The future becomes the past. No truth in this world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NM7W0Y_9Kc

You all know that old adage: “A picture is worth a thousand words”
So true! This one from Chips Mackinolty is worth one thousand and four words:

Adiós,

Franklin