Artist: Jack Green
The Rodeo is not what is once was. – 2024
Acrylic on Canvas – 40 x 40 cm (pre-stretched)
Once the Borroloola rodeo was a community thing. Everyone together, black and white worked to make it happen. No one owned it. Lots of people riding, lots of fun, lots of bruises. Today the rodeo has been taken over by Glencore and McArthur River Mine. The company uses the event to make themselves look good. “See what we do for the community” they say while they pollute our country and leave us with a toxic waste rock pile that will leak acid into our waters for generations. They may be able to pull the wool over people’s eyes, but not the old scrub bullocky, with his head down watching.

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