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 In North-Western Australia, there are still small communities where Aborigines live as they did thousands of years ago. They live by managing the natural environment and the resources they have. But not everyone grows up in this way. Some actually grow up without being familiar at all with the Aboriginal language and the Aboriginal culture. But industrialization and the white arrival in Australia has put a stop to some Aborigines. Many Aborigines now live a life of poverty and with no place to live. They want to live as they did before the whites came; they want to live without industrialization. They ask therefore whether the right to use the land. They did not need property. Aborigines want the old times back, and after all the racism they have been exposed to, they might deserve the land?

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