WOW!! how bad is it, that a aboriginal (what percentage ??) can do in a English speaking country that was developed
by the hated white folk. Just think how great he would be in the real world that he claims that "was",, He could have
made a message stick? and when he went on to another tribes waterhole.. he may not have be given the
new cosy touchy feeling word Makarrata.
One meaning of the Yolngu word Makarrata is, as Merrikiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs explains,
“a spear penetrating, usually the thigh, of a person that has done wrong… to settle them down.”
It also contains the more commonly understood meaning of the agreement-making and truth-telling process that may then occur
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