© Roger Garwood 2025 “Hey, Boss, quick, we got camel in the dam!” “Tiger, don’t call me Boss.” “No, Boss.” It was difficult. I was a ‘whitefella’ managing a ‘blackfella’ community in the mid ‘90s and reversing a 200 year old programme of brainwashing was a formidable battle.  I was working for these people, they were my boss – spinifex people who were removed from Maralinga where atomic weapons were tested between 1952 and 1963.  The community of Coonnana is 200 kilometres east of the gold mining centre of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia.  Driving dangerously fast on the dusty track … Continue reading “Camel in the Dam”