Indigenous Sky Country

[pmccarthy]

An astronomer has claimed the moon is part of "indigenous sky country" after being asked whether Australians should be concerned about a SpaceX rocket which is set to crash into the lunar surface this week. Rebecca Allen, the Co-Director of the Space Technology and Industry Institute at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, also said the moon was important for aboriginal storytelling, and therefore “not just something for us to go and explore”.

Late last year The University of Newcastle was given more than $500,000 in taxpayer funding to “embed aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge in Australian space policy’’ via a project that also used the term “sky country”. The university said the $528,491 Australian Research Council grant will “help shape culturally respectful and environmentally responsible space exploration”.

[old man emu]

And no other indigenous population wherever on the planet has no cultural reference to the Moon? Australia is creating a culture of lunar tics. 

[old man emu]

By the way, tomorrow, 4th of August is National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day. Anyone know the date of Non-National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children's Day? 

 

Have I jst posted something racist?

[facthunter]

Possibly. It would depend on your intent and in what context you wish your statement to Apply. 4th Aug is designed to apply to a specific group of Individuals." Everybody Other than" is terribly Non specific and Philosophically one could ask what is the particular obvious Need? I imagine it would be a question PHON would raise, or maybe already HAS. The Purpose there would be that of a Stirrer.  Nev