var quotes=new Array() //change the quotes if desired. Add/ delete additional quotes as desired. quotes[0]='Each year, more didjeridus are imported into Australia from overseas than made by Aboriginal craftsmen in Australia.
' quotes[1]='Less than 0.1% of didjeridus sold worldwide could be classed as authentic Aboriginal-made instruments.
' quotes[2]='The Aboriginal dot con - the dot painting decoration commonly found on tourist didjeridus are rarely painted by Aboriginal artists but are instead pale imitations produced by factory-style mass-production operations.
' quotes[3]='In 1966 no Aborigines in Australia owned land by virtue of being Aborigines.

Nicolas Peterson' quotes[4]='In 1993, an historic judgement handed down by the Australian High Court laid to rest the myth of \'terra nullius\' - no man\'s land. This has led to the enactment of the Native Title Act which recognises prior ownership of land by Australian Indigenous peoples.
' quotes[5]='We are much like you, we have a system of law.

Gawirrin Gumana, Dhalwangu leader
' quotes[6]='I think most non-Aboriginal Australians accept that there is a deep intellectual strength to Aboriginal knowledge but they seem to think of it as a mystery.

Mandawuy Yunupingu' quotes[7]='There are 632 Aboriginal communities or settlements in the Northern Territory of Australia.

Australian Bureau of Statistics' quotes[8]='I welcome Balanda. I can\'t reject friends. We welcome you. Different cultures. Heart the same. Mind the same.

Djalu Gurruwiwi, Galpu clan leader' quotes[9]='People have to be aware the yirdaki is a traditional instrument. If a person knows the value of the yirdaki he should play it in a way that\'s respected by the Yolngu.

Dhangal Gurruwiwi' quotes[10]='Top End Aborigines are concerned that their cultural and intellectual property rights are being hijacked by unscrupulous harvesters of didjeridu stems, costing their communities millions of dollars a year in a trade that revolves exclusively around their traditions.


The Age newspaper' quotes[11]='Some commercial harvesters operate on Aboriginal land in secret or pay a token royalty, or supply grog, to traditional owners for permission to cut trees.

The Age, January 18 2003' quotes[12]='Since the coming of Europeans the record of Aboriginal health has been one of unmitigated disaster.

H.C. Coombs' quotes[13]='The land rights movement basically expresses the desire of Aborigines to acquire title to, and control of, land which they regard as theirs by traditional right and with which they identify in a complex and spiritually charged manner.

H.C. Coombs' quotes[14]='Your knowledge... we are using it... Ok, and in the same way you must learn... if we are living in the way of reconciliation, this is how we should live.

Djambawa Marawili' quotes[15]='Aboriginal people were counted in the national census only as recently as 1967.
' quotes[16]='Sometimes it seems that Aboriginal people are the most persistent proselytisers in the world. Given the deaf ears of white Australian government and society, it\'s a wonder that they continue their efforts.

Djon Mundine OAM' quotes[17]='What you see before you is the evidence of a living indigenous culture - a living system of people and their country. The art works are not simply art, disconnected from the rest of life.

Mick Dodson' quotes[18]='The early European history of Aboriginal art is a history of invisibility and denial.

Howard Morphy' quotes[19]='Aboriginal art is an integral part of the Dreaming - part of the constitution of the ancestral beings, part of their presence and part of their immortality.

Howard Morphy' quotes[20]='The didjeridu is a unique and astonishing achievement that deserves to be widely recognised and respected wherever artistic accomplishment is valued.

Trevor A. Jones' quotes[21]='The emergence of a high volume commercial didjeridu production industry has added harvesting pressure to a landscape that is already suffering from the effects of introduced species and changing fire regimes.

N.T. Conservation and Natural Resources report' quotes[22]='The term land rights is usually applied in contexts where third or fourth world peoples have been dispossessed by a recent group of colonisers... it generally results in a loss of personal and political autonomy...

Nicolas Peterson' quotes[23]='Since Europeans arrived, most of the Indigenous languages of Australia have been in decline. This is not only because of the disruption of traditional societies and the sometimes more subtle effects of English having become the language of economic relationships and power...

John Henderson' quotes[24]='There were about 200 Indigenous languages and 600 dialects spoken in Australia at the time of European settlement. Today, most of these languages and dialects are either \'lost\' or not in common usage.

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