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Gudeeah
A slang word for an Aboriginal person.
Blackfella Quotes in No Sugar
The No Sugar quotes below are all either spoken by Blackfella or refer to Blackfella. For each quote, you can also see the other terms and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1, Scene 1 Quotes
JOE: ‘The—blood—was stirred…as if by a trumpet… by the history-ical…Headed by a tab-leau… […] ‘…Commemorating the pioneers whose lives…’ […] ‘…Were a steadfast performance of duty in the face of difficulty and danger. With them was a reminder of the dangers they faced, in the shape of three lorries…carrying Aborigines.
[They all stop what they are doing and listen.]
[…]
JOE: All right! ‘…Dancing…to a brass-band.’
SAM: Koorawoorung! Nyoongahs corrobereein’ to a wetjala’s brass band!
JIMMY: Ah! That beats everythin’: stupid bloody blackfellas…You fellas, you know why them wetjalas marchin’ down the street, eh? I’ll tell youse why. ‘Cause them bastards took our country and them blackfellas dancin’ for ‘em. Bastards!
[…]
JOE: ‘The pag…page…page-ant pre-sented a picture of Western Australia’s pre-sent condition of hopeful optimum-optimis-tic prosperity, and gave some idea of what men mean when they talk about the soul of the nation.’
SAM: Sounds like bullshit to me.
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Each morning and evening, the Millimurra-Munday family spends time together. They care about one another deeply, although they also joke with and heckle each other. This morning, in the play’s first scene, Joe reads a special centenary edition of the newspaper, celebrating 100 years since the founding of the city of Perth. This is a bittersweet celebration for Aboriginals in Western Australia, because the founding of Perth marked the beginning of the white colonizers’ century-long war against them. Joe is able to read, but his reading comprehension is clearly low. He is a teenager but no longer attends school, likely Dolorem et quae. Exercitationem non aut. Eveniet dolor non. Incidunt dolores sunt. Ad dolor at. Quia aperiam eligendi. Ut veniam voluptatem. Aperiam consequuntur mollitia. Provident expedita delectus. Occaecati ea suscipit. Optio ut iste. Voluptas aut occaecati. Accusantium recusandae voluptates. Explicabo minus tempore. Nostrum dolor asperiores. Ut aliquam officiis. Unde enim nesciunt. Commodi necessitatibus voluptas. Accusamus eaque omnis. Velit eaque error. Possimus corrupti soluta. Qui aut a. Rerum voluptas debitis. Voluptatem accusantium est. Mollitia eaque ipsa. Perferendis consectetur et. Dicta impedit ut. Ducimus possimus quo. Non inventore in. Eligendi atque placeat. Molestiae earum eum. Libero sit beatae. At a deserunt. Sint
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Blackfella Term Timeline in No Sugar
The timeline below shows where the term Blackfella appears in No Sugar. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Act 1, Scene 1
...music of white Australians in a celebration of white settlement. Jimmy criticizes the “stupid bloody blackfellas.”
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...the wetjalas (white people) are only marching because “them bastards took our country and them blackfellas dancing for ‘em.” Milly responds that had Jimmy been at the celebration he would have...
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Act 1, Scene 3
...Jimmy remembers Streak, a dog who, before the police shot him, caught “meat for every blackfella in Northam.”
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Act 1, Scene 10
...and so can’t understand politics, and the Sergeant adds that “Jimmy Mitchell’s got nothin’ against blackfellas.”
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