An uninhibited whirl through the effects of modernity on Australia, from uranium

mining and the Aborigines to computers and the typing pool. TH: "Now Mungo will go berserk and he'll say, 'No, it's nothing like that, it's nothing as mundane as that.' Of course it's as mundane as that. I do not blame the Aborigine. He sees the chance to make a lot of money [out of the uranium-mining companies], and I believe in making a lot of money. Mungo will now say that I'm a pterodactyl and something frightful has happened. Go ahead." MM: "No, I'll simply say that you are dead set bloody ignorant." TH: "No, I know rather more than you do about most matters." MM: "You probably know a little more about making money than I do." TH: "Libel! Libel!"... SL: "The fact is that most Australians simply don't live anywhere where Aborigines are seen, and this is unlike the situation of the [American] blacks. It may be analogous to the Red Indians, because in most American big cities you don't see Red Indians ... But there is a backlash ... against a certain thrusting down the throats of Australians sitting out there in television land, the kind of notion that they did have some guilt, some sense of

overwhelming responsibility to the Aborigines."