The drive this morning was to Batchelor, which is about 1.5 hours from Darwin. Batchelor is this beautiful town of about 800 people. There used to be a Meatworks in Batchelor, but that shut down a few years ago. The main industry is now the Batchelor Institute - which is a college that provides learning for largely remote communities.

What was strange about this town was that it seemed - well at least from the people I met in BatchelorArea High - largely non-Indigenous. Batchelor is situated just outside the incredibly beautiful Litchfield National Park. Batchelor Area School has students from the neighbouring towns of Rum Jungle (yes, the coolest name in the world!) and Adelaide River. I chatted with about 60 students from year 7, 8, 9 and 10 from the school.

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