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Mary quote on Neal working hospital

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Mary: ‘When Mr Neal sends a girl to work at the hospital, it usually means…That he wants the girl for himself’

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Mary quote on Neal hanging around Cat-o-nine-tails

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Mary: ‘He’s always hangin’ round where the girls are workin’…and he’s always carryin’ that cat-o-nine tails and he’ll use it, too’

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Mary quote on trackers and baby

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Mary: ‘when she had that baby them trackers choked it dead’

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Gran quote, wanting to walk with fam

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‘Chergeant, I ain’t goin’ on no train. You can put me in gaol if you want to’

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Joe quote paying for pie

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‘Here’s threepence each’ – He gives them extra money enabling them to buy a pie

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Joe to mary love quote

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“i don’t like you… i love you”

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Mr and Mrs smith quote

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“claims he wouldn’t be able to go out and leave his wife home alone at night” ..”and he’s generally down the shamrock hotel till stumps”

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Jimmy protective about fam quote

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warns Constable Kerr that ‘it’ll be [his] funeral’ if Gran is injured/becomes unwell on the journey to Moore River

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Jimmy quote country

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“bastards took our country”

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Jimmy political quotes 2

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‘ere, don’t want our kids at the school, with their kids…”; to Carrol: “I know
more about wetjala’s gubment than you do…”

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Jimmy gubmet quote

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‘Fuckin’ gubmet. Fucks everybody up’

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Jimmy give a damn quote

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‘I dont give a damn for any damn man, that don’t give a damn for me’

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Mary resistance to neal quotes 2

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‘You can belt me if you like, I’m not workin’ in the hospital’
‘Go to hell…Fuck youse”

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quote as a result of mary’s refusal

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As a result she is ‘held down by Billy’ as Neal proceeds to whip her.

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Gran improvisation to rations quote

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The officers refuse to give Gran flour and soap, as they ‘ran out,’ however Gran says that she can make flour from ‘wattle seeds’ and soap from ‘jeering bush.’

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Billy story telling

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Billy tells the story of his people in the “Oombulgierri” massacre, showing spiritual capacity of aboriginals to provide healing for their people. Billy tells a cruel story of a Man defending his family but a man known as ‘Midja George (Mister George)’ “Bin flog the man” “bleedin’ from they eyes” as a result they “shoot ‘em everybody, mens, koories, little yambah.

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Matron quote on david

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‘ he’s a strapping lad’

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Matron to grann quote

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‘you did a very good job Granny’

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Matron and mr neal about hospital control

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‘As matron in charge of the hospital, I thought it was my job to allocate nursing aids’… ‘I was only trying to help you.’ …. ‘Or yourself.’

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Matron to Neal prior to whipping

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‘Just remember, that girl is pregnant and unwell.’ Neal proceeds to whip her

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Gran ashes quote

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Git me clean ashes…now cover you in ashes. More better than Johnston’s Baby Powder…” -

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Mary defence of baby quote

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‘No don’t touch him! You’re not havin’ my baby, leave him alone.’

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Joe and Mary resistance

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Return ‘back to Northam’ despite the Indigenous are ‘not to domicile in the town of Northam’

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Neal to Joe about leaving

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Good, now get out. The sooner you leave, the better

25
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David about Billy

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David: ‘He ain’t black, he’s purple!’

26
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Billy bout himself

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Billy: ‘I’m a politjman, name Billy Kimberly’

27
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what hymn is mocked

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There is a happy land

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Mockery of the hymn

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The Aboriginals ‘break into full clear voice with a parody of the words’:
No sugar in our tea,
Bread and butter we never see.
That’s why we’re gradually
Fading away.
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Neville’s reaction to hymn

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“no privileges” + “no christmas”

30
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Nev to Jimmy

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‘sugar catches more flies than vinegar’

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Jimmy to nev about inequality

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‘You can come an’ eat supper with us, tonight, right? Bread and drippin’ and black tea. Are you game to try it?’

32
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David quote about apples

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‘…old Tony the ding always sells us little shrivelled ones and them wetjala kids big fat ones’

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JP (Judge) – on alco and abos

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‘…it’s my duty to protect the natives and half-castes from alcohol’

34
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sergeant when Jimmy kicks a bucket

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‘Damage to government property’

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Derogatory names for nyohnga

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‘Not abos or half-castes?’

‘incompetent savage’ (spoken towards Billy)

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Jimmy mentions to the unemployed farmer, Frank

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‘You know we’re not allowed in town, not allowed to go down the soak, not allowed to march,’

37
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Nev native entrance

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Neville: The native’s entrance is around the back.

38
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Kerr department

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Constable Kerr: Nigger’s Department

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Neal towards Sister Eileen’s Library proposal

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‘there’s a lot of

wisdom in the old adage that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.

40
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Sergeant Carrol and Kerr casual racism

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they joke that they should “put a pinch of strychnine in the

flour” and about the “Tasmanian Solution”

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Milly to the ‘fellas’

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‘And you fellas, we got no meat for dinner or supper; you’ll have to go out and get a couple of rabbits’

42
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Gran and Sergeant

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Sergeant Carrol reminds Gran that she ‘used to
grind up jam and wattle seeds’. Gran responds: ‘More better than white man’s flour, no
weevils in jam and wattle seeds.’

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Corroboree = ritualised quotes

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The ‘corroboree’: jimmy mixes “Wilgi” in the lids of the tobacco tins and Sam separates “inji sticks” from “clap sticks”

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Burning quote

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Burned home: ‘burned everything’, ‘burnt relics of the camp’

45
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Jimmy on abuse of power

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Jimmy: ‘they can shoot our dawgs, anytime they want to’

46
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Billy on his people

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‘Anybody left? …Not many’

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Dave and cissie cricket

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o Stage directions: ‘DAVID and CISSIE play cricket with a home-made bat and ball’

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whites dont want abol quote

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“‘Coz wetjalas in this town don’t want us

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