No Sugar Quotes Flashcards
Joe who is absorbed in the special centenary edition of the western mail
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David and Cissie play cricket with a home made bat and ball
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Woolah! Don Bradman
David
Stupid bloody blackfellas
Jimmy
Cause them bastards took our country
Jimmy
He nicks his finger with the axe and watches the blood drip to the ground
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It’s all the money I got
Milly
We got no meat for dinner or supper
Milly
Not abos or half casts?
Sergeant
You’ve been seen hangin’ about with the natives
Sergeant to frank brown
I can’t even raise a train fare to Perth to go see them
Frank brown
Natives best kept to keep to themselves
Sergeant
Claims he wouldn’t be able to go out and leave his wife home alone at night
Neville about mr smith
How you been keepin’, Granny?
Sergeant
More better then the white mans flour
Gran
Wetjala cut all the trees down
Gran
What am I gonna wash with? How can I keep my kids clean and sen ‘em to school?
Milly
No, Granny, you still get your stick of nigger twist
Sergeant
Well, they’ll have to work if you want luxury items like soap
Sergeant to gran
You wait till brother Jimmy hears about this no soap business. He’ll make you fellas jump
Milly
If he comes arguing here I’ll make him jump: straight inside
Sergeant about Jimmy
I’m a great believer that if you provide the native the basic accountrements of civilisation you’re half way to civilising him
Neville
He’s our friend
Jimmy about frank
Don’t worry about sergeant, I’ll give him a piece of my mind
Jimmy
Jimmy produces turnips from his pocket
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Aw, drinkin, fightin and snowdroppin
Jimmy
In the church too
Gran about Sam and Milly’s marriage
You know we’re not allowed up in town
Jimmy
She takes her wahna sticks and gives them both a solid poke in the ribs. They seperate and get up, reluctantly
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He ain’t sick in the chest, he’s sick in the bloody head
Sam
I could blow the sergeants head off with a three-oh-three at six hundred, bloody oath
Jimmy
One shit bucket, add it to the charge sheet
Sergeant
Serge, I’ll sing you a song. I’ll sing you a hymn, if you like
Jimmy
The roped off section for blackfellas
Jimmy
JP, a local cocky, who sits at the bench
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I’ve got to get to a bank auction
JP
What’s-his-name
JP about Sam
All right, get on with it
JP
He was a real mate to me
Frank brown
Shut up you bloody idiot
JP
He stands
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Mr Neville! I wanna see you
Jimmy
You can wait around the back and you’ll be attended to in due course
Neville
All right, I’ll mention it to him
Miss Dunn to Jimmy
There’s a native outside
Miss Dunn to Neville
Niggers department
Constable
My girls in ‘ospital with ‘Monia and pleurisy
Milly
Her name mrs millimurra. Proper church married
Gran
In future, no meat is included in rations
Sergeant
There’s a bloody depression on
Sergeant
An you’re supposed to be native ‘tector
Gran
Should put a pinch of strychnine in the flour
Constable
Too late to adopt the Tasmanian solution
Sergeant
Native protector, couldn’t protect my dog from fleas
Jimmy
It’s been decided to transfer the entire native population to the Moore river settlement
Neville
I’ll attend to the dogs when I clean up the camp
Sergeant
All the best for Christmas
Sergeant
He’s gunna get rida the blackfellas
Jimmy
I ain’t goin’ on no train. I’m goin’ with Sam and Milly. You’re not Makin’ me go on no train
Gran
I ain’t goin’ on no train. You can put me in gaol if you want to
Gran
With a police bullet
Jimmy talking about the dogs
You ain’t polite man, you just a black tracker
Gran to Billy
No, I’m sure there’s not. I just want to check
Matron
You did a very good job, Granny
Matron
Black crow
David
I don’t like mister Neal. He scares me
Mary
I don’t like the way he looks at me
Mary about mr Neal
He’s always hangin’ around where the girls are workin’; in the cookhouse, in the sewin’ room. And he’s always carryin’ that cat-o-nine tails and he’ll use it, too
Mary about Neal
The boss’s son used to belt her up, and, you know, force her
Mary
I don’t like you… I love you
Joe to Mary
Come off it, you know that quarantine camp is a load of bullshit, so don’t try and tip it over me
Jimmy
Are you telling me out of eighty nine dumped on me, only four of them have got the bloody disease
Neal
Good god, woman, what’s the bloody game?
Neal to matron
Finish, kill ‘em. Big mob, 1926, kill ‘em big mob my country
Billy
Big mob politjmans, and big mob from stations and shoot ‘em
Billy
When mr Neal sends a girl to his work at the hospital, it usually means…. that he wants that girl… for himself… everyone know, even the wetjalas
Mary
We’re doin this tonight, right this fuckin minute
Joe
I’m not stayin here to listen to you gloat all bloody day
Neal to matron
I think she was scared of the living
Matron to Neal
That one dargarru, my countryman
Billy
Mary jumps up and begins to vomit. Joe supports her. A magpie warbles
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She’s comin with me
Joe about me
Mitjer Neal says she gotta come back
Billy about Mary
Which-way-was-the-train-going?
Neal to Billy
You blithering Stone Age idiot!
Neal to Billy
You bloody fool of a man!
Neal to Billy
Desperately, almost in tears
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You bloody incompetent savage
Neal to Billy
I can’t see anything funny about this
Neal
It’ll never be over!
Joe
We’re simply following orders
Sergeant
Since all the natives have shifted out
Sergeant
We never shifted out, we was booted out
Joe
Dargurru’s a minor, and millimurra’s guilty of absconding with her: it carries a mandatory six months
Neville
Darg… something
Sergeant
A waste of bloody time, like the bloody referendum; they’ll just stick it in some government filing cabinet and forget about it
Sergeant
Listen, you cheeky bla-
Constable
Why are youse worryin’ about us now? We been back in Northam for nearly two months
Joe
Hold out your hands
Constable
He didn’t want any other king
Sister Eileen
Billy belts David on the legs with his whip
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She jumps up and picks up a stone, and runs to David
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Billy, but we don’t hit people to make them do gods will
Sister Eileen
Just remember, that girl is pregnant, and unwell
Matron to Neal
Don’t go walkabout
Neal
I don’t want to work in the hospital
Mary
I don’t care. You can belt me if you like, I’m not workin’ in the hospital
Mary
Go to hell!
Mary to Neal
What-did-you-say?
Neal to Mary
Well I’m going to unlearn you
Neal to Mary
Neal grabs her. Billy holds her outstretched over a pile of flour bags. Neal raises the cat-o-nine tails. Blackout. A scream
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Milly carefully lifts the back of Mary’s Galatea blouse to reveal huge welts
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The bastard. I’ll kill him
Jimmy to Neal
I’m not goin’ to no hospital. I’ll die first
Mary
Gave it to him, not give
Cissie
F-u-c-k-f-a-c-e gets it
Cissie
I love you and I think of you day and night
Joe in letter to Mary
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Neal
There’s enough troublemakers without giving them ideas
Neal
Neville rises. The whites clap while the aborigines remain silent
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Today we are gathered to celebrate the birth of this nation of Australia one hundred and forty six years ago at Sydney cove in the Eastern states
Neville
There is a happy land, Far, far away. No sugar in our tea, Bread and butter we never see. That's why we're gradually Fading away.
Aboriginal community
Never in my life have I witnessed such a disgraceful exhibition
Neville
There will be no privelleges from now on
Neville
You come an’ eat supper with us, tonight, right? Bread and drippin’ and black tea. Are you game to try it?
Jimmy to Neville
Nothin’ to do with bloody scabies. And that’s why we got dragged ‘ere, so them wetjalas vote for him
Jimmy
Jimmy is left alone. Shouting
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So he could have a nice, white little town, white little fuckin’ town.
Jimmy
Jimmy runs out of breath, heaves and clutches his chest. Sam catches him as he collapses, clutching at the flagpole. The official party continues to sing ‘ god save the king ‘. Jimmys family rushes to him
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Ah! He’s only fainted
Neal
Matron and the millummurra’s exit with Billy and bluey. Neville and Neal exit in the other direction. Sister Eileen remains underuse which way to go
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And don’t you go wrappin’ him up in the gubmet blanket. You put him in a proper box
Milly
You’re scared at what he’ll do when he gets out
Milly
I couldn’t agree more. Seems to be happening frequently in this office lately
Matron
More better then Johnsons baby powder, eh?
Gran
Go and hide him… don’t let matron take him away
Mary
I only want to help
Matron to Mary
Don’t need powder, use me own
Gran
Gran seems to have aged suddenly
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Joe enters carrying a sugar bag
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Joe wears a yellow shirt and black plants
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I wanna call him Jimmy
Joe
She ties yellow and red ribbons in her hair
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Wages. Earned a few bob and they give it to me when I get out. Not like this place
Joe
I’m gunna kick his teeth down his fuckin’ throat
Joe
Please think of baby and me. He’ll put you in gaol again
Mary
Witness.
Neal
You can understand this?
Neal to Billy
Gawd, you wetjalas funny fellas
Joe
Coz the bastards scared of us
Joe
He hands him his whip
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Take it, it’s a gift
Mary
Comin boss
Billy
Magpies squawk. Gran begins to sing. They farewell each member of the family, then walk off into the distance
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