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On the far side of the ridge across the valley behind this grand gesture is a humbler sign, also mentioning the Golden Sun Moth. Placed here as it is, its back facing the major trackway and its front facing the suburbs this really looks like a branding exercise more than a commitment to the poor little endangered moth.
In the fine print this sign talks about an offset for the suburb of Ngunnawal. Elsewhere on websites, this same area is referred to as an offset for the suburb of Bonner. Neither claim really compensates for the destruction of moth communities when those suburbs were built. They haven't made more moths, just destroyed those that were there!
The topic of Ngunnawal is an intriguing one. There are contested spellings: Ngunnawal and Ngunawal. It's a bit silly really. This was the language group of the inhabitants of this land when Europeans arrived. As a spoken language without a script and no longer a living language how it is transliterated in the Latin alphabet is arbitrary.
When the Government of the ACT declared allegiance to one language group over another, one elder adroitly shifted themselves to the preferred group. This is an emerging issue with unwritten matters. As the new Government moves to mend fences with the peoples indigenous to Australia at the time of European settlement it faces the issue of affiliations and disagreements within the communities they seek to address. We hope for a resolution without bickering and posturing over superiority of one claim over another between families and so on. This matter has been a long time coming, 234 years so far, and it would be a shame if it ended as a grand gesture, like this sign, with just a bit of branding and fine print without substance.
Sorry Susan, the light wasn't that good. Wear your lipstick next time and I'll go round the other side !
like shenzhen, nanjings new metro uses plastic tokens. a step up from beijing where paper tickets have to be handed to staff to enter the metro [nanjing railway station]
Lot #: 1005~Fort Robinson~Dawes County~Token Breast Plate~Ornamental breast plate made of 26 tokens from Fort Robinson. Two five cent tokens, eighteen dimes, two quarters, and four dollars. Of the rare L.D. Carson post exchange.
October 2010 sale.
Short tee for the 9th hole at the Token Creek disc golf course in Madison, WI. You can't see the basket from here, it is to the right. This is a par 3. See the map for the whole course layout.