No Sugar Quotes Flashcards
(154 cards)
1
Q
Joe who is absorbed in the special centenary edition of the western mail
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Stage directions
2
Q
David and Cissie play cricket with a home made bat and ball
A
Stage directions
3
Q
Woolah! Don Bradman
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David
4
Q
Stupid bloody blackfellas
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Jimmy
5
Q
Cause them bastards took our country
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Jimmy
6
Q
He nicks his finger with the axe and watches the blood drip to the ground
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7
Q
It’s all the money I got
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Milly
8
Q
We got no meat for dinner or supper
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Milly
9
Q
Not abos or half casts?
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Sergeant
10
Q
You’ve been seen hangin’ about with the natives
A
Sergeant to frank brown
11
Q
I can’t even raise a train fare to Perth to go see them
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Frank brown
12
Q
Natives best kept to keep to themselves
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Sergeant
13
Q
Claims he wouldn’t be able to go out and leave his wife home alone at night
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Neville about mr smith
14
Q
How you been keepin’, Granny?
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Sergeant
15
Q
More better then the white mans flour
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Gran
16
Q
Wetjala cut all the trees down
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Gran
17
Q
What am I gonna wash with? How can I keep my kids clean and sen ‘em to school?
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Milly
18
Q
No, Granny, you still get your stick of nigger twist
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Sergeant
19
Q
Well, they’ll have to work if you want luxury items like soap
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Sergeant to gran
20
Q
You wait till brother Jimmy hears about this no soap business. He’ll make you fellas jump
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Milly
21
Q
If he comes arguing here I’ll make him jump: straight inside
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Sergeant about Jimmy
22
Q
I’m a great believer that if you provide the native the basic accountrements of civilisation you’re half way to civilising him
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Neville
23
Q
He’s our friend
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Jimmy about frank
24
Q
Don’t worry about sergeant, I’ll give him a piece of my mind
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Jimmy
25
Jimmy produces turnips from his pocket
Stage directions
26
Aw, drinkin, fightin and snowdroppin
Jimmy
27
In the church too
Gran about Sam and Milly's marriage
28
You know we're not allowed up in town
Jimmy
29
She takes her wahna sticks and gives them both a solid poke in the ribs. They seperate and get up, reluctantly
Stage directions
30
He ain't sick in the chest, he's sick in the bloody head
Sam
31
I could blow the sergeants head off with a three-oh-three at six hundred, bloody oath
Jimmy
32
One shit bucket, add it to the charge sheet
Sergeant
33
Serge, I'll sing you a song. I'll sing you a hymn, if you like
Jimmy
34
The roped off section for blackfellas
Jimmy
35
JP, a local cocky, who sits at the bench
Stage directions
36
I've got to get to a bank auction
JP
37
What's-his-name
JP about Sam
38
All right, get on with it
JP
39
He was a real mate to me
Frank brown
40
Shut up you bloody idiot
JP
41
He stands
Stage directions about JP
42
Mr Neville! I wanna see you
Jimmy
43
You can wait around the back and you'll be attended to in due course
Neville
44
All right, I'll mention it to him
Miss Dunn to Jimmy
45
There's a native outside
Miss Dunn to Neville
46
Niggers department
Constable
47
My girls in 'ospital with 'Monia and pleurisy
Milly
48
Her name mrs millimurra. Proper church married
Gran
49
In future, no meat is included in rations
Sergeant
50
There's a bloody depression on
Sergeant
51
An you're supposed to be native 'tector
Gran
52
Should put a pinch of strychnine in the flour
Constable
53
Too late to adopt the Tasmanian solution
Sergeant
54
Native protector, couldn't protect my dog from fleas
Jimmy
55
It's been decided to transfer the entire native population to the Moore river settlement
Neville
56
I'll attend to the dogs when I clean up the camp
Sergeant
57
All the best for Christmas
Sergeant
58
He's gunna get rida the blackfellas
Jimmy
59
I ain't goin' on no train. I'm goin' with Sam and Milly. You're not Makin' me go on no train
Gran
60
I ain't goin' on no train. You can put me in gaol if you want to
Gran
61
With a police bullet
Jimmy talking about the dogs
62
You ain't polite man, you just a black tracker
Gran to Billy
63
No, I'm sure there's not. I just want to check
Matron
64
You did a very good job, Granny
Matron
65
Black crow
David
66
I don't like mister Neal. He scares me
Mary
67
I don't like the way he looks at me
Mary about mr Neal
68
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
69
The boss's son used to belt her up, and, you know, force her
Mary
70
I don't like you... I love you
Joe to Mary
71
Come off it, you know that quarantine camp is a load of bullshit, so don't try and tip it over me
Jimmy
72
Are you telling me out of eighty nine dumped on me, only four of them have got the bloody disease
Neal
73
Good god, woman, what's the bloody game?
Neal to matron
74
Finish, kill 'em. Big mob, 1926, kill 'em big mob my country
Billy
75
Big mob politjmans, and big mob from stations and shoot 'em
Billy
76
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
77
We're doin this tonight, right this fuckin minute
Joe
78
I'm not stayin here to listen to you gloat all bloody day
Neal to matron
79
I think she was scared of the living
Matron to Neal
80
That one dargarru, my countryman
Billy
81
Mary jumps up and begins to vomit. Joe supports her. A magpie warbles
Stage directions
82
She's comin with me
Joe about me
83
Mitjer Neal says she gotta come back
Billy about Mary
84
Which-way-was-the-train-going?
Neal to Billy
85
You blithering Stone Age idiot!
Neal to Billy
86
You bloody fool of a man!
Neal to Billy
87
Desperately, almost in tears
Stage directions about Billy wanting out of handcuffs
88
You bloody incompetent savage
Neal to Billy
89
I can't see anything funny about this
Neal
90
It'll never be over!
Joe
91
We're simply following orders
Sergeant
92
Since all the natives have shifted out
Sergeant
93
We never shifted out, we was booted out
Joe
94
Dargurru's a minor, and millimurra's guilty of absconding with her: it carries a mandatory six months
Neville
95
Darg... something
Sergeant
96
A waste of bloody time, like the bloody referendum; they'll just stick it in some government filing cabinet and forget about it
Sergeant
97
Listen, you cheeky bla-
Constable
98
Why are youse worryin' about us now? We been back in Northam for nearly two months
Joe
99
Hold out your hands
Constable
100
He didn't want any other king
Sister Eileen
101
Billy belts David on the legs with his whip
Stage directions
102
She jumps up and picks up a stone, and runs to David
Stage directions about Cissie
103
Billy, but we don't hit people to make them do gods will
Sister Eileen
104
Just remember, that girl is pregnant, and unwell
Matron to Neal
105
Don't go walkabout
Neal
106
I don't want to work in the hospital
Mary
107
I don't care. You can belt me if you like, I'm not workin' in the hospital
Mary
108
Go to hell!
Mary to Neal
109
What-did-you-say?
Neal to Mary
110
Well I'm going to unlearn you
Neal to Mary
111
Neal grabs her. Billy holds her outstretched over a pile of flour bags. Neal raises the cat-o-nine tails. Blackout. A scream
Stage directions
112
Milly carefully lifts the back of Mary's Galatea blouse to reveal huge welts
Stage directions
113
The bastard. I'll kill him
Jimmy to Neal
114
I'm not goin' to no hospital. I'll die first
Mary
115
Gave it to him, not give
Cissie
116
F-u-c-k-f-a-c-e gets it
Cissie
117
I love you and I think of you day and night
Joe in letter to Mary
118
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing
Neal
119
There's enough troublemakers without giving them ideas
Neal
120
Neville rises. The whites clap while the aborigines remain silent
Stage directions
121
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
122
```
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
123
Never in my life have I witnessed such a disgraceful exhibition
Neville
124
There will be no privelleges from now on
Neville
125
You come an' eat supper with us, tonight, right? Bread and drippin' and black tea. Are you game to try it?
Jimmy to Neville
126
Nothin' to do with bloody scabies. And that's why we got dragged 'ere, so them wetjalas vote for him
Jimmy
127
Jimmy is left alone. Shouting
Stage directions
128
So he could have a nice, white little town, white little fuckin' town.
Jimmy
129
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
Stage directions
130
Ah! He's only fainted
Neal
131
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
Stage directions
132
And don't you go wrappin' him up in the gubmet blanket. You put him in a proper box
Milly
133
You're scared at what he'll do when he gets out
Milly
134
I couldn't agree more. Seems to be happening frequently in this office lately
Matron
135
More better then Johnsons baby powder, eh?
Gran
136
Go and hide him... don't let matron take him away
Mary
137
I only want to help
Matron to Mary
138
Don't need powder, use me own
Gran
139
Gran seems to have aged suddenly
Stage directions
140
Joe enters carrying a sugar bag
Stage directions
141
Joe wears a yellow shirt and black plants
Stage directions
142
I wanna call him Jimmy
Joe
143
She ties yellow and red ribbons in her hair
Stage directions
144
Wages. Earned a few bob and they give it to me when I get out. Not like this place
Joe
145
I'm gunna kick his teeth down his fuckin' throat
Joe
146
Please think of baby and me. He'll put you in gaol again
Mary
147
Witness.
Neal
148
You can understand this?
Neal to Billy
149
Gawd, you wetjalas funny fellas
Joe
150
Coz the bastards scared of us
Joe
151
He hands him his whip
Stage directions
152
Take it, it's a gift
Mary
153
Comin boss
Billy
154
Magpies squawk. Gran begins to sing. They farewell each member of the family, then walk off into the distance
Stage directions
