"I had not been back in civilisation very long and faced at last with the cold and formal air of Canberra, so remote from the problems of the people of Arnhem Land, I felt embarrassed and bewildered... This was a world bleak, soulless, far from the friendly, warm-hearted people for whom I had come as advocate, and I experienced a great depression of spirit - a feeling that I was never able to overcome in any of my subsequent visits to Canberra. It is a feeling experienced by many advocates for the indigenous cause today."
Donald Thomson