outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

National Heritage Property.

Intellectual Property Right is acknowledged as an entity in law. As more farmers and bush people leave the land and the outback towns, then Farming, Grazing and Bush Property Right ought to be acknowledged as a entity that has to be paid for by the advertisers who use bush and grazing images. Bushies and cockies are holding up and sustaining this powerful image of Australianness but they are not being paid for doing it.
Yet city slickers skite to their overseas friends about the mateship of the legends of the bush, the land of droughts and bushfires and occasional flooding rains. They share in the image and the glory (if you can call it that, these days) of Bourke and Barcaldine and Cunnamulla and Tibooburra and advertisers exploit places like Silverton but ask them - well if it is so good to photograph - why don't you help our community by paying for the image setting we are maintaining and which sells your 4 wheel drive or whatever product, they are not interested and they retreat to their cosy little cul de sac in Woolara or wherever. Aborigine cultural rights are another entity that is not being paid its full value. How many more years before McLeod's daughters has no ring of truth to it whatsoever? If you believe in it, then how about you pay for it?

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