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Ron to Camera: Welcome to Wurrumiyanga, my home. My home, sweet home.
Ron voice over: It’s a 20 minute flight, from Darwin so the tourists of my home they come visit every day.
Ron to camera: But the tourist season starts next week, so I’m your private tour guide, and I’ll show you my favourite spots around the island.
Ron Voice Over: Wurrumiyanga began as a small mission settlement in 1911. Today, it’s a big town with lots of new housing and big mobs of people living here. We have a big supermarket here now, everyone seems busy all the time, just like in a big city. But life was not always so busy here. The last time these old bells rang was in 1941. It was an air raid and the missionary let our people hide in this old church. The Catholic nuns have always been part of our life, and this museum is one of my favourite places here. I love the history, and the old photos, including one of my Dad.
Sister Anne: And Ronnie, you should know this man here, because this is Dugong (Rafael), this is your father, and he was a great, great mission worker. He worked with brother Ilwool for years.
Ron voice over: Sister Anne has been with us for 50 years. She taught my whole family and she knows our histories and our stories.
Sister Anne: So Pat came from a farm, who had skills with horses and cattle, so he got the horses and the cattle, he started the women milking, he was a road builder, he did the first road from Nguiu to Forkroy and he also taught the men how to cut down the trees down and bring them in to make houses.
Ron to camera: Yeah. All the old stories, all the old photos of my people make me feel happy inside me and feel proud of our people.
Ron voice over: Another spot I take tourists that makes me proud is our Lookout burial site.
Ron to camera: Today the spirits still exist, doesn’t matter if you got buried two or 10,000 years ago, but our spirits still exists.
Ron to camera: So this is the place called Lookout, where we bring tourists, and we tell them how we make poles like this. Lines is where all the people are heading to different directions, different countries. So yeah, that’s all this finding they have different meanings, different stories.
That’s my story. I hope you like it. See you next time.
