Turns out Woman should Not have Bone

More on last week's bone incident from The Australian.

The Australian has learnt that Moopor is usually known by the name Bernadette Clark, is a cousin of suspended ATSIC chairman Geoff Clark, and that her power to point the bone might not be as bona fide as he suggested.

At Warrnambool, western Victoria, Bernice Clarke, whose family has had a long feud with Mr Clark's, said yesterday: "It's all bullshit, it's crap."

She said Bernadette Clark, the daughter of Mr Clark's aunt Fay, had no traditional authority to point the bone, which in any event was not practised by the Tjap-Whuurong people.

"When we saw it, we were so embarrassed," she said. "My gut rolled, I felt so sick. It makes blackfellas look stupid."

Ms Clarke sums it up. Less than 1% of Aboriginals practice / believe in such traditions and those that espouse them make many of the rest feel 'sick'.

If you were a one percenter in Christian parlance, the Aboriginal woman performing the curse would have been described as belonging to a "sect", "cult" or as simply being an "extremist" or "fundamentalist".