Tanya Heaslip
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Yes.
Yeah.
And we were busy kids.
You know, we had to get mulga branches and continually wave them over the carcass to keep the flies off and to keep it as safe as possible from the elements.
You know, if you're a meat eater, when you talk to city friends, do they go, oh, that's horrifying or something?
Do they get a bit worried about that?
Absolutely.
It was such a normal thing.
I didn't even realise it was a strange way to get your own meat until probably I went to uni and really started hearing from city folk that this was odd.
They went to the butcher or the supermarket and didn't even know really how the meat got there.
Right.
It just sort of arrived somehow magically under the cling wrap.
Yeah.
If they ate meat at all.
If they ate meat at all.
Tell me about that country near Alice Springs.
I've been out there.
Can you describe what it looks like, what it sounds like, what it smells like?
Oh, it's just magnificent.
Huge blue skies, enormous red rocky ranges everywhere.