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"They never make him (Henry) stick to those grog rules."

Michael has a grudge against old many Henry since he lost his brother to drugs, which Henry is suspected of selling. But he is also pointing out how unfair that the rules don't apply to the 'whites'.

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Dek overhears the Year 7 speculating about him. They say that it seems suspicious that he is called into the Principal's office the day old Henry is found dead. "He's one of those out of town community guys. Who knows what he is capable of."

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They never make him (Henry)

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“It wasn’t the first time we’d hooked around the school on the gardeners wheelbarrow, kicked the footy in the basketball hoops, or written our names on the school shed. It had felt good to be in control of the school for brief moments; no one telling us what to do, or how to behave, or who to be or what to become. in those times, we owned the school and pretended that we owned our destinies. No stereotypes, no predetermined roles for us to fill just as society had decided.”

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The kid describes that the principal was brown skin

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The kid describes that the principal was brown skin

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Young black guy up to no good

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“And we know you and your mates are known to cause a but of trouble around town…and out on the stations.”

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black man accused of murder

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That because Dek is young and Aboriginal that he must be up to 'no good'. Youth, particularly Aboriginal youth, are often targeted. Unfair negative stereotypes about young people e.g crime

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It was assumed that because he was an 'out of town community boy', he probably murdered the old guy as said by a junior student to a friend. "Bet you he murdered the old guy!"

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The cop suspects dek because he’s aboriginal and stereotypes him as a trouble maker. Officer tells him 'Not to leave town'.

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‘Wondering if this is where any blakfellas had died in custody’

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Deck thinks that officer Thomas thinks that he thinks he killed them and being racist compared to if the officer were talking to a white person

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‘The divide is still here from the old day when the blakfella lived in missions on the outskirts of town.’

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‘I’d been hanging out with Michael’s brother and his mate Dean on the weekend in town a few months back. The boys had been selling weed low key in town for a while.’

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His aunty June lives on the poor side of town

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‘I’m no angel but that stuffs gross. One thing our mob getting drunk or stoned. I knew that stuff gets you proper hooked.’

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Teacher is racist: You don’t deserve handouts

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There were going to lock down the community

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The teacher wants to teach them the ‘proper’ way to live, no ‘handouts’

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"This isn't about white and black! When did we ever talk rubbish like that? We are all on the same side. We all want them back." Said by Brad.

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As a son he feels he is responsible for setting up his family financially and the footy could be a way to do this - family comes first.

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The value of family and what happens when you lose someone you love

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Family comes first

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In their culture family always comes first.

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Cultural practice of people being promised to someone of the 'right skin'. Jenny has been promised to someone else. Not all communities follow this practice anymore, but it is still considered important in their community.

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'Have a sniff around..' Dek is upset, thinking that Officer Thomas is referring to them as sniffer dogs. It does have a negative connotation to it and you can understand why Dek might see it as racist.

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we aren’t the right skin so I wasn’t supposed to have any feelings for her

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Two different colours “aren’t supposed to be together”

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exemptions of racism

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“The sun, moss on trees and the stars show us direction. Our song lines guide us through our country”

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The stolen generation

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Dek thinks of the year 12s as part of his mob.

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‘Police used to target blackfellas for any crime in town and even beat a few real bad when they didn’t admit to something they’d been pinned for’

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“We kill to eat”

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Exemptions of racism

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It kind of reminds me of how the station owners invaded our Country to run their cattle, dirtying the waterholes, trampling Sacred ground - that they massacred and poisoned our people to get them off the country.

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Sharing a feed is aboriginal way in family

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He isa old person because he cares for the animals

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how the animals are born to be killed is cruel. It’s the aboriginal way to care for your family, you only catch what you need. Bradley Paul Williams

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‘It’s Aboriginal way to share a catch with your family’

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“I drop to ground searching for all remaining items”.

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Dosent eat supermarket meat cause of how they kill the animals casue he thinks its too harsh and their culture kills better.

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Kangaroo is yummy 😋

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Deklan’s a aboriginal

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He climbs a tree to get away from 2 wild dogs, this shows how wild the Australian outback is.

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`Us mob have been signalling each other long before those contraptions my boy’

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“us mob have been signalling each other long before those contraptions my boy” grandfather said to dek

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dek is pretty sure he is responsible for the bus accident and he feels very guilty.

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The blood on dek as he claims out of the bus could be symbolic of how he believes the blood of the year 12’s is on his hands

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Dek feels guilty and wants to forget this day and that he shouldn’t of mucked around with the bus tyres

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‘The light foot that grandfather has me believed in is a human? ‘bushmen, powerful law men. Respected in our culture’

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Lightfoot is a lawful man

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He feels guilty about Dixon and Hannah so the lightfoot wants payback.

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Grandpa sacrifice himself because he’s old

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The ranger is the lightfoot

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The light foot is the ranger

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Dek revealed a truth about himself to his grandpa, telling him that he busted the tyre.

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Dek’s grandfather would rather die for his grandson than let Dek die for his not so innocent mistake this is loyalty, love, but more importantly sacrifice for the ones held dear but it never comes he is not taken he is needed his loss would be insurmountablely permanent

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The lightfoot doesn’t want grandfather because his mob needs him.

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Is fearful the creation creatures may really be real

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Lightfoot says ‘tonight you will begin to learn the sounds of the bush, you will learn your country’

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the lightfoot trains dek into becoming a lightfoot

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Dek is lightfoot

What a twist, he turned the man’s life support off as payback, and revealing that he is the lightfoot

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‘Well, let’s light you a signal fire now. You mob, start collecting twigs and branches … but stay within eyesight’