Tears flow as laughter stops
HE was a little boy who loved to laugh and play with his brothers.
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HE was a little boy who loved to laugh and play with his brothers.
They would usually kick the footy on the road - Mudginberri outstation, about 20km from Jabiru in the Kakadu National Park, has few areas in the wet season to stretch into a lead. It also has few passing cars.
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A couple of times a week families from the community, totalling about 50 people, would head into town to buy supplies and run errands.
If it became too hot, they would swim at the outstation's nearby billabong, at Magela Creek.
A male relative of the boy, who asked not to be named, told the NT News it was a popular swimming hole for young boys, like it had been for their fathers and grandfathers.
He remembers swimming there as a child 20 years ago.
There had never been a problem with crocodiles then, but that was before their numbers had recovered from years of hunting, nearly to extinction.
Today there are more and they are bigger.
In more recent times, he says, crocodiles have taken horses, pigs and dogs - but rarely. And never a human...
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