this is the native anon from above. i'm not australian, so i can't rly comment on yt/aboriginal relations, but i imagine they're similar to yt/ndn relations in the US and tbh, with the wholesale appropriation of native culture by the white hipster lately, i'm on a super hair trigger. a white kid leaving his ~oppressive~ father (who really only wanted him to follow his footsteps) and being rescued in the desert by a native man who takes him in and teaches him to live off the land and engages in weird ritualistic rites with tiger snakes might not be unrealistic, but coming to me in the form of a story written by a white girl to further the plot of a white man doesn't leave me with good feelings. basically, what bothers me is there's one native dude in this story and he's a total plot device, used for the same purpose as every native dude in every white narrative ever.