Judging by the ads it’s going to be spectacular:

KAKADU – NEW SERIES.Sunday 6th October at 7.32 pm (61 minutes)
Channel: ABC1
It’s the start of another wild year in Kakadu: danger and death wait in the primal paradise and tourists are on their way. Cons.Advice: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and voices of people who have died

Thanks for the ‘heads up’ Bubblecar…will check it out.

And later, we are going to give this one a go:

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/yagan/#episode/

Sorry, probably better to cut and paste the details:

Yagan
Sunday, 6 Oct 9:25pm

Murdered and cruelly beheaded in 1833 by those he trusted, the return of Yagan’s skull to Noongar country was a momentous occasion for Australian Indigenous people nationwide. This is his story. CAST: Clarence Ryan

ABC1

Mmm, Kakadu was quite good. Not exactly sanitized, although possibly a bit overwrought occasionally in the commentary. Kingy needs to watch it next week, looks like a bushfire is going to happen. He can see if they do it all wrong……

(Well, Mr buffy always picks ambulance scenes to pieces)

Thanks for the heads up.

I am interested in the Yagan story. I visited the (newish) memorial site a couple of months ago but although there was some interesting hard and soft landscaping (and a geocache!) there wasn’t any interpretive signage.

podzol said:

Thanks for the heads up.

I am interested in the Yagan story.

I spent many hours in the library as a kid researching Yagan on microfiche of the early newspapers of the colony. I still have the essay that I wrote as a result.

I’m sorry to say that if I knew the story I have forgotten it. It sounds interesting.

Oh, and when I said Kakadu was not sanitized, I meant they do actually show killing of wild pigs and a crocodile and cutting up the bodies. So anyone a bit squeamish, just be aware of that. It’s just what has to happen, but often docos don’t like to show the unsavoury stuff.

KAKADU-DU, push pineapple, shake the tree
KAKADU-DU, push pineapple, grind coffee
To the left, to the right, jump up and down and to the knees
Come and dance every night, sing with a hula melody

buffy said:

Oh, and when I said Kakadu was not sanitized, I meant they do actually show killing of wild pigs and a crocodile and cutting up the bodies. So anyone a bit squeamish, just be aware of that. It’s just what has to happen, but often docos don’t like to show the unsavoury stuff.

Mmmm. Crocodile tail. Seems yummy to me…

And the Yagan documentary was interesting. I wasn’t sure about the mix of contemporary and historical costuming, but it did work. I now think I had known some of the story but not the detail. And we spent most of the doco trying to remember the actor playing his father…..we were sure he was familiar. I looked it up in the end, and he was documented himself in “Bastardy”. He was raised in a the boys’ home in Box Hill (Melbourne).

Thanks Buffy :)