Basil "Mulla" Sumner
Basil "Mulla" Sumner, is a Ngarrindjeri elder and community leader who lives outside Adelaide in South Australia. He is the executive director of Nunkuwarrin Yunti, an organization that develops and runs alcohol and drug prevention programs for Aboriginal youth and adults across South Australia. He took us into his home and spent many hours sharing his thoughts and experiences with us, and his passion for Harley Davidson Motorcycles.Videos featuring Basil "Mulla" Sumner
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Mulla Rides
Basil "Mulla" Sumner, an elder and leader in the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia, tells us that oneness starts from the individual. By starting from the self and spreading from there, individuals can consciously shape what kind of oneness they inhabit.
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Whose Oneness is it?
Basil "Mulla" Sumner, an elder and leader in the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia, asks us, whose oneness are we talking about? A white oneness? A black oneness? George Bush's oneness? To create this global oneness, Mulla says, people have to come together and define exactly what they mean by oneness and unity. So the question for all people interested in oneness is: how do we go about doing that?
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Basil Sumner: Complete Interview
Basil "Mulla" Sumner, an elder and leader in the Ngarrindjeri community in South Australia, tells us about growing up on an Aboriginal settlement. Describing its transformation into a wasteland at the hands of Euro-Australian authorities, Mulla contrasts the Aboriginal view of land as mother with the "greed and destruction" of white colonizers that has already begun to backfire. Mulla says that Aboriginals and other indigenous cultures have a lot to offer the dominant cultures; but, he questions, do they really want to learn?
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"Whose unity and whose oneness are we looking at? Whose idea of or whose form of unity are we looking at?"
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