Talk:Cannington, Western Australia

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I have loaded some pictures of the Canning river at the Kent Street Weir looking both up and down stream. There is also a picture of the weir itself they are on my wikipedia commons account. Feel free to add them to the article as it expands Gnangarra 13:50, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NPOV

Cannington had a significant indigenous population who were peaceful hunter gatherers. At the stroke of a pen, without their consent, their lands were divided up and given away to new settlers. This led to strained relations between all parties. Daisy Bates, a social reformer, lived with local Aboriginal people in a well intentioned but misguided attempt to "civilize" them. Today, few indigenous people live in Cannington.

From the article it isnt NPOV, Cannington suburb has Aboriginal residents. From observations The suburb would have a higher percentage then the overall percentage for the STate Gnangarra 06:47, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah I wouldn't doubt it. Census claims 2.2% or so which is above average in most metropolitan districts. Also I thought Daisy Bates lived around the state, mainly up north? (I could be wrong but I remember looking into this when researching Innaloo). BTW good edits, and feel free to hack away at what I've done recently, I was just trying to address a lack of detail on what is quite a critical suburb. Orderinchaos78 ^(t|c) 12:11, 7 November 2006 (UTC)