A conversation between two people (MARION and DUNCAN) discussing a current event:
(MARION and DUNCAN sit in the tea room at their place of work. MARION is making a cup of tea and looking for biscuits, whilst DUNCAN is reading the paper.)
DUNCAN: (with a snarl) Phwar. Have you read this?
MARION: (looking briefly over her shoulder) I did have a glance this morning yes. (head in the pantry) Why? Have you found something interesting?
DUNCAN: It’s just this article.
MARION: (with her head still in the pantry) Well, you’ll have to tell me about it, I’m kind of busy at the moment.
DUNCAN: It’s about that french bird who did the titty show on top of Ayres Rock.
MARION: (finding the biscuits) You mean Uluru.
DUNCAN: Yeah, the rock.
MARION: It’s not a rock, it’s Uluru.
DUNCAN: Call it what you want, to me it will always be a rock.
MARION: (sighs) Well, what about it?
DUNCAN: Well, there’s just a bit of a blow out over what the girl did, saying it’s disrespectful.
MARION: Well it is.
DUNCAN: How so?
MARION: Personally, I find that sort public exhibition quite offensive.
DUNCAN: But she did it on top of a rock. Looked like no one was there.
MARION: She did it on a sacred landmark.
DUNCAN: What’s so sacred about it?
MARION: It’s sacred to the Aboriginal people, that’s enough.
DUNCAN: Well, it’s not just their’s, it’s an Australian landmark.
MARION: I’m not even going to begin to try to go down that road with you, but on the matter at hand, she did something she shouldn’t have.
DUNCAN: Why?
MARION: Because it’s a cultural landmark that has strong spiritual significance to some people. It doesn’t matter if you feel the same way, if there are people who find it sacred, you should pay it the proper respect.
DUNCAN: That doesn’t make any sense.
MARION: Are you catholic?
DUNCAN: No.
MARION: So would you go and perform a strip show in a church under the statue of The Virgin Mary and then show the video to the priest?
DUNCAN: Come on, bit harsh isn’t it?
MARION: Well it’s the same thing to what she’s done?
DUNCAN: Yeah, but she didn’t do it in a church, she did it on a rock.
MARION: It’s not just a rock!
DUNCAN: I know I know, the Aboriginal people say its sacred. But the Aboriginal people think everything is sacred.
MARION: That’s because for them, all land is sacred.
DUNCAN: It’s a load of horse shit. This land is Australian land, for all Australian’s. The rock isn’t sacred to me. My point counts.
MARION: Have you ever been to see Uluru?
DUNCAN: No.
MARION: So on that point, you can shut the fuck up.
(MARION leaves with her tea)
THE END.
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