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quote on white man bringing bad stuff to australia

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You come from far away and bring us alcohol, ganja, tobacco, all bad!’ (Charlie)

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mutal term of cop and charlie

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‘G’day Luke. G’day Charlie. You white bastard. You black bastard.’

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quote showcasing value of money for indigenous community

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‘I don’t need a big note

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quote on charlie being unable to buy a house

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‘You’ve got a job…and you got a house… on my land. Where’s my house? Where’s my job?

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quote on deteroiting health of indigenous community

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Sit down very slowly. I better sit down slowly too

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quote on laws constantly getting in the way of charlie

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‘They’ve got my car… and your rifle and my gun

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quote on charlie and black pete finding humor in misfortune

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‘That’ll soon stink up the whole police station!

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quote on tradional ways being better

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‘There’s lots of food in the bush. It’s like a supermarket out there.’

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quote on culture and tradtion being lost

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‘The kids go to school now. They don’t care anymore.’

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quote on elders responsibility

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We need to teach them… …the traditional ways

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preconcieved notion of indigenous people being dumb

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‘Damn, you black fellas are smart when you wanna be

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charlie defending his hunting

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I’m not a recreational shooter… I am… a hunter.

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charlie danced for

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. I danced for… the Queen of England… when they opened that building. I bet you never did that.

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nutrition

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white man junk food we eat

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importance of land and restrictions implaced by society

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They’ll take me to Darwin. Then you’ll die in the wrong place… a long way from your country. A long way.’

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spear quote

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‘It’s not a dangerous weapon. It’s a hunting spear, not a battle spear.’

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charlie’s outrage on police taking away spear

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Treacherous bastard! Fuck those thieving… white bastards. Why did you come here? From far away… stealing people’s stuff! Is this your land?

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charlie’s resistance on police car scene

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‘They stole our land and put a police station on it. They’re lucky. I’m only borrowing their car! We’ll bring it back later

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charlie’s plan to connect to his culture

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Live the old way… …going to my Mother Country

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charlie’s creativity coming back once he returned to the bush

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‘Long time since I painted anything

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charlie being happy in the bush and being healthy

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, now I’m home. I’m eating well. It’s my own supermarket

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charlie being an outcast in his own country

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I have difficulty pronouncing foreign names.’

‘Now I’m a foreigner?

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charlie wanting his oppression to end

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‘They should just shoot us… …like in the old days

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quote on alcohol and drinking

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And that’s poison you’re drinking, it rots your brain.’

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luke outraged at charlie

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! You fuckin’ turn on me, you fuckin’ useless black bastard!’ (Luke).

I trusted you!

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charlie complaining about white culture being dominate

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These times have changed.’

‘No, they haven’t. You’re still trying to change our culture to your bastard culture!’

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charlie’s defense to being taken away from the bush

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mean my country is my home. That means… …I was living in my home……nice and peacefully

police came… to throw me out

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why charlie was locked up

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‘White fellas locked me up for being aboriginal

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charlie being banned from alcohol

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banned from buying alcohol. …you won’t be allowed to associate with known drinkers.

instead of education and rehabilitation they just ban them, doesnt solve the problem

30
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irony in charlie being banned from alcohol

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‘Everyone in this country are known drinkers. Police are known drinkers. Tell them not to associate with me.’

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charlie just wanting peace and true sense of identity

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‘I want to go home now… back to my own country… where my place is…’ (Charlie)

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charlie taking the responsibility of passing on culture and knowledge

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Okay, I’ll teach them. I’d like to do

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maxine being unable to gain teachers help

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. The teacher stares at you, exasperated as if to say: Do you really expect me to do something about it?

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names maxine has been called

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Blackie. Monkey girl. Golliwog

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how maxine was silenced

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I learned to stay quiet.

I learned that nobody much cared. I learned that it was probably my fault anyway

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excuses maxine makes for the racism happening to her

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and that what they were doing to me was perfectly okay. This is how it alters us. This is how we change.”

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maxine’s view on racism coming from the heart

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If racism is a shortcoming of the heart, then experiencing it is an assault on the mind.”

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quote on greg adams

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Greg Adams called me dirty and disgusting. He recoiled when I came near him, in a deliberately exaggerated way

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how deep hatred can stem in an individual

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His hatred was wide, and loud, and vicious, and entitled. His hatred knew no bounds

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maxine’s hope towards the future of australia

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“I love this country, but I believe we could be so much kinder to each other. So much more equitable. So much better. I hope I live to see it happen.”

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maxine’s parent’s attempt to try to get her to fit in

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my mother did everything she could to integrate us into our surroundings

minoritires have to assimliate whereas majority makes no effort

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skin colour quote for maxine

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palpable visual differences

43
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maxine recognizing she is a minority at a young age

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i was brown and most of my world wasn’t

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maxine not having the power to hold her ground

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“i didnt feel like i had anything to appologize for “ sorry

45
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how maxine describes the playground and how racism changed her

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like battlefield

“you start to breathe it”

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maxine having to make herself invisible

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the more invisible i was, the easier my life would become

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how the teacher calls maxine telling her story about her father

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vivid imagination

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how maxine wanted to escape the silence and break free from hiding

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making myself real

the words did hurt

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what was happening during the mid eighties in australia

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australia was slowly changing

50
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truth about education system in australia on indigenous people

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if it were true i would have learned about it at school

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how maxine describes the vitilgo

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on the surface of my skin a miracle was slowly brewing

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