Thread: Sadly our history has some very dark parts

Originally Posted by Toolsman8

Hey folks. Why is this topic on here .i for one aren't interested in politics. Im interested in land rovers.

This thread is in the General Chat forum where anything short of politics and religion can be discussed - like being around a camp fire.

If you are not interested in non Land Rover chatter then keep yourself to the vehicle specific areas. Here's an index to them:

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/the-pinnacles/

Is there politics in this thread?

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Is there politics in this thread?

Nup! If there is it will be removed.

Went to a movie premier the other night. The film was called Sweet Country and was directed by the same guy that did Samson and Delilah. Stars Bryan Brown and Sam Neil

sweet country trailer - Google Search

The brief precis of the movie as as follows:

Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighbouring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam's relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in self-defence. As a result, Sam becomes a wanted criminal for the murder of a white man, and is forced to flee with his wife across the deadly outback, through glorious but harsh desert country. A hunting party led by the local lawman Sergeant Fletcher is formed to track Sam down. But as the true details of the killing start to surface, the community begins to question whether justice is really being served.

Shows a good balance from both sides of the story

What did the Romans ever do for us..lmfao

Ps still intrested in land rovers.

Originally Posted by Chenz

Went to a movie premier the other night. The film was called Sweet Country and was directed by the same guy that did Samson and Delilah. Stars Bryan Brown and Sam Neil

sweet country trailer - Google Search

The brief precis of the movie as as follows:

Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighbouring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam's relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in self-defence. As a result, Sam becomes a wanted criminal for the murder of a white man, and is forced to flee with his wife across the deadly outback, through glorious but harsh desert country. A hunting party led by the local lawman Sergeant Fletcher is formed to track Sam down. But as the true details of the killing start to surface, the community begins to question whether justice is really being served.

Shows a good balance from both sides of the story

Thanks for that, but , mate, it is fantasy, not fact.

Originally Posted by bob10

Thanks for that, but , mate, it is fantasy, not fact.

Yeah Bob I knew that. I was just pointing it out as I think it gave a fairly good representation of what life was like for folks back in those days.

I worked out in western NSW in the late 70s and saw the good the bad and the ugly on both the black and white community's side of the fence.

Things are a bit better now but still a bloody long way to go.