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Decision Time for the Aborigines

Australia's aborigines thrust into the front line of global economics. Kate Adie presents this and more 大象传媒 despatches from Lebanon, Venezuela, Nepal and South Sudan.

What price can you put on memory? Neil Trevithick is with the Aborigines whose territory in Western Australia's being coveted for its mineral wealth. Once hundreds of hermits lived in the mountains of northern Lebanon. Today John Laurenson's meeting one of just three who remain. Joanna Jolly's in Nepal where, six years after the end of civil war, no-one's been brought to court to face charges of war crimes. Will Grant joins the weeping crowds paying their final respects to Venezuela's "commandante." And oil should soon run again through the pipelines from South Sudan. Richard Nield says if the revenue it brings provides a more reliable supply of electricity, its people will be delighted.
Producer: Tony Grant.

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Thu 14 Mar 2013 11:00

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  • Thu 14 Mar 2013 11:00