The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday January 2nd, 2023
Country for Bad Dreams: Vandalism on the Nullarbor Plain by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
“This is quite shocking,” declared South Australia’s Attorney-General and Aboriginal Affairs Minister, Kyam Maher. “These caves are some of the earliest evidence of Aboriginal occupation of that part of the country.” That evidence was subtracted this month by acts of vandalism inflicted on artwork in Koonalda Cave on the Nullarbor Plain,claimed to be the world’s largest limestone karst landscape and covering over 200,000 square kilometres.
Edward John Eyre, the first European to cross the Plain in 1840-1841, wrote hauntingly of it as “a hideous anomaly, a blot on the face of Nature, the sort of place one gets into bad dreams”. In his case, personal circumstances soured the impressions: horses dying of dehydration; a case of mutiny resulting in the killing of his companion John Baxter; the theft of the party’s supplies; the slimmest chances of survival.
The work in question, carvings on chalk limestone, is said to be some 30,000 years old,considered sacred by the Mirning people. By the time news reached CNN of the incident, eight years had been shaved off the estimate, one more in line with the 1956 dating by archaeologist Alexander Gallus. In information available on the Commonwealth Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, the “finger markings and unique archaeological deposits found in Koonalda Cave provide a rare glimpse of Aboriginal life on the Nullarbor Plain during the Pleistocene.”
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To the heavenly goodness #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“ask the salt
ship timber,
If you miss your songs!
The sails have no wind to remember,
And the wind has no sail to take it
away to grieve.”
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Always something; the family edition #52 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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