Author Noel Gardner
The Shroud of Wittenoom
In 1917 in the north west cape of Australia
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Contributed by Dq82 2017/10/8 - 21:12
Song Itineraries:
The War of Labour: Emigration, Immigration, Exploitation, Slavery
Reflections of War
2005
Walking This Land
On the day of the peace marches prior to the current Iraqi war fiasco I attended a photographic exhibition about the use of depleted uranium in Iraq in the first gulf war and the effects of over ten years exposure to the population.
America and Great Britain filled Iraq with the equivalent of thirty-five Hiroshima bombs during that war resulting in sheep born with five heads and eight to ten deformed babies now born per day in Bagdad hospitals. Prior to that war one deformed baby was born a week. No doubt that figure will rise in years to come from the effects from the use of more in this war now. After watching the huge turnout at the peace rallies on television news that night I sat down and wrote this song.
The use of depleted uranium is a crime against humanity and our current Australian government condones It with the granting of leases for America to test... (Continues)
Walking This Land
On the day of the peace marches prior to the current Iraqi war fiasco I attended a photographic exhibition about the use of depleted uranium in Iraq in the first gulf war and the effects of over ten years exposure to the population.
America and Great Britain filled Iraq with the equivalent of thirty-five Hiroshima bombs during that war resulting in sheep born with five heads and eight to ten deformed babies now born per day in Bagdad hospitals. Prior to that war one deformed baby was born a week. No doubt that figure will rise in years to come from the effects from the use of more in this war now. After watching the huge turnout at the peace rallies on television news that night I sat down and wrote this song.
The use of depleted uranium is a crime against humanity and our current Australian government condones It with the granting of leases for America to test... (Continues)
I went to the gallery, saw your photo on the wall
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Contributed by Dq82 2017/10/8 - 21:28
Stolen Generations
2005
Walking This Land
The inspiration for this song came after reading some testimony given to the Stolen Generationenquiry and my recollection of an old Cinesound documentary about two small aboriginal girls who were taken from their family and adopted by a white family. The storyline was to show how 'lucky' these girls were to be given a real chance at life. My lasting image of that documentary was at the end when the girls (in new white frilly dresses) were being led up to their new bedroom and the commentator said - ‘yes dreams really do come true’.
Walking This Land
The inspiration for this song came after reading some testimony given to the Stolen Generationenquiry and my recollection of an old Cinesound documentary about two small aboriginal girls who were taken from their family and adopted by a white family. The storyline was to show how 'lucky' these girls were to be given a real chance at life. My lasting image of that documentary was at the end when the girls (in new white frilly dresses) were being led up to their new bedroom and the commentator said - ‘yes dreams really do come true’.
Well he stroke my hair and he pat my back, then he tell me I look fine
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Contributed by Dq82 2017/10/8 - 21:06
Refugee
2005
Walking This Land
This song took a while to eventuate. I was compelled to write it out of disgust at our current government’s hypocrisy and racist attitudes towards people’s who have suffered so much in their own homelands and have travelled across our northern waters in unseaworthy boats in the hope for a new future for themselves and their families. The fact that Australia sends troops to Afghanistan and Iraq because the local citizens need help and protection and we imprison theirrefugee’s who come from there is utter hypocrisy.
John Howard and his liberal party counterparts should be forever condemned for using the plight of these people’s lives to further their own political ends. The lies about queue jumping and children overboard, the imprisonment of children and the torture many of these refugee’s have been subjected to, deserve condemnation - for now, and into the future.
Walking This Land
This song took a while to eventuate. I was compelled to write it out of disgust at our current government’s hypocrisy and racist attitudes towards people’s who have suffered so much in their own homelands and have travelled across our northern waters in unseaworthy boats in the hope for a new future for themselves and their families. The fact that Australia sends troops to Afghanistan and Iraq because the local citizens need help and protection and we imprison theirrefugee’s who come from there is utter hypocrisy.
John Howard and his liberal party counterparts should be forever condemned for using the plight of these people’s lives to further their own political ends. The lies about queue jumping and children overboard, the imprisonment of children and the torture many of these refugee’s have been subjected to, deserve condemnation - for now, and into the future.
I come from the land of the desert
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Contributed by Dq82 2017/10/8 - 21:00
Song Itineraries:
The War of Labour: Emigration, Immigration, Exploitation, Slavery
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Justice and Pride
In 1935 there was documented evidence of the dangers of asbestos. However companies ignored the evidence and mined it up until the 1980’s. As the song says ‘ it is becoming one of the world’s largest industrial disasters’. Although this song appeared on my 1994 CD Justice And Pride it is as relevant as ever as James Hardie Industries continues to try and avoid its responsibilities to the worker’s it poisoned during the mining, distribution, and use of it’s asbestos products.
Wittenoom è oggi una città fantasma in Australia. Sede di una miniera di asbesto, questo è stato estratto per circa 30 anni, dal 1935 fino alla chiusura della città nel 1966 a causa dei problemi di salute dati dall'asbesto, ma per ben 30 anni l'estrazione è continuata nonostante fosse nota la tossicità dell'asbesto.
Wittenoom, un paese del Pilbara, regione dell’Australia occidentale, nel 1966... (Continues)