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WALK NOT QUITE SO LONG
The ABC celebrates Michael Long’s new career and his famous 2004 walk:
KERRY O’BRIEN: Michael Long’s musical career is one of the more unusual consequences of his long walk to Canberra in 2004 to highlight problems in Indigenous communities ...
LISA WHITEHEAD: The lyrics were inspired by Michael Long’s walk from Melbourne to Canberra in late 2004 ... The song has become an anthem of sorts for the Long Walk Foundation, set up by Michael Long to continue the work he started with the walk to Canberra.
Small problem: Long never walked to Canberra.
(Via Denis M)
UPDATE. Mrs Pickles: “Long seems a genuine bloke from Bathurst Island who has achieved much and walking from Melbourne to Albury is a big effort anyway. Why do Long and his efforts need to be tainted by easily checkable ABC bullshit?” Speaking of which ...
To be fair, a walk from Melbourne to Albury doesn’t have quite the same pizzazz.
Posted by blandwagon on 2008 03 12 at 01:45 AM • permalinkSelf and The Minister for Finance, Entertainament and War watched this last night.
Her view of it was: “Long seems a genuine bloke from Bathurst Island who has achieved much and walking from Melbourne to Albury is a big effort anyway. Why do Long and his efforts need to be tainted by easily checkable ABC bullshit ?”
It’s a metaphor. Can any of us ever really walk to Canberra?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 12 at 01:54 AM • permalinkYes but he could have if he’d really wanted to and made a really big effort and - “Say, is that a bandwagon I could hitch on?”
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 03 12 at 01:55 AM • permalinkI recall the disgraceful interview the 7.30 Report did with Long during this walk. He was clearly unwell, or exhausted, and babbling paranoid nonsense about being murdered for what he was doing. The ABC of course ran this as just another day in Howard’s redneck racist Australia:
MICHAEL LONG: I wrote my will out this morning, you know.
GEOFF HUTCHISON: Tell me why you think you wrote your will out this morning.
MICHAEL LONG: Well, there’s been -
GEOFF HUTCHISON: What’s the most fearful aspect of this journey for you?
MICHAEL LONG: Well, that I will be shot, you know, doing what I believed in.
GEOFF HUTCHISON: Really?
MICHAEL LONG: Mm.
GEOFF HUTCHISON: Have you had any reason to believe that?
MICHAEL LONG: Well, it’s the uncertainty, fear. It’s been done before.
Hmm, nope that didn’t come out right at all…*gets ou the big eraser*
*erase erase erase*
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 03 12 at 02:03 AM • permalinkWell Latham was in Canberra on a visit.
Now all we need is a sap-ling from Labor’s sacred tree to hold the concert under.
His parents ‘grew up on a Catholic mission’. Now what if his parents had not been rescued, to be part of the ‘stolen’?
End of story before it began.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 12 at 02:07 AM • permalinkIt seems to be a hobby of the popular media the world over to celebrate nihilistic symbolism.
Let’s all “raise awareness”...
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 12 at 02:40 AM • permalinkThe ABC is no different to any other organisation pumping out propaganda. It is all about demonising your enemies and lionising your heroes. Facts are a nuisance best ignored.
What makes it worse in this case is the ABC is building a myth that the man himself would reject. Long never attempted to conceal the fact he stopped at Albury. But thanks to the ABC he will forever be fending off accusations that it is he who is lying about walking all the way to Canberra.
Don’t the majority of Australians object to having their money stolen for Andrew Bartlewheat’s proposed $tolen Generations* Fund ...
*Now it’s now plural, hmmm ...?
# 14
You are a “facist”.Facts are a nuisance best ignored.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 12 at 02:54 AM • permalink#18 - Oh dear. If that is an attempt at humour, it is much like your father’s penis - should have been withdrawn.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2008 03 12 at 03:15 AM • permalinkI have a long cock.
Maybe so, but you’re still an annoying little prick.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 12 at 03:36 AM • permalinkThe OzDemocrats continue to show why they are a diminishing scintilla in the political landscape.
Bolt has covered it.Damo and his long… friend will now have plenty of time to get to know each other better, as I have banned him. If he was an innocent merely making a joke that didn’t come off, he is welcome to email me: twistedspinster-at-gmail-dot-com.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2008 03 12 at 06:57 AM • permalinkI suspect that damo has spent way too much time getting to know his long friend already, AHA.
Nothing so tediously unfunny as a one-joke comedian.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2008 03 12 at 05:37 PM • permalink#39
Oh. Do you think it’s the territory?I always thought Victorians drove madly - you know the lines on the road down there? It’s to line up the bonnet mascot.
Or you just line the bonnet mascot up with the tram tracks - either side.
If you’ve got no bonnet mascot, fake it.A lot of Qlders drive by zen. No indicator necessary.
Roundabouts? Clueless.
Put the right hand indicator on when travelling directly through the roundabout, and indicate left when your’e leaving (if fellow motorists are lucky… and if there’s any indicator used at all!).#40, Overall Canberrans aren’t too bad but they are very aggressive towards cyclists. When I ride to work I take a 2.5km detour through West Queanbeyan to pick up a cycle path and minimise my road time - the more direct route along the Monaro Highway is too dangerous. My life is worth more than the 5 minutes each way that route would save.
I know what Queenslanders are like having lived in Toowoomba and Amberley. Zen is a good way of describing it!
You’re right about Pricktorians too. What is it about Melbourne that makes the drivers soooo agro?
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BS - I love how they re-write history. Howard met him BEFORE the walk (at the afl grand final) and had invited him on to the ab advisory council, and also said afterwards, that Long didn’t need to “Walk” and could meet with him anytime.
Typical ABC bias.