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Characters like Dave realise that they can find happiness in life; others come to accept themselves for and what they are without the need to hide their race or identity

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Even among the singers there is jealousy but ultimately they not only tolerate but also celebrate the differences between one another - acceptance for who and what people are

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Many characters (re)unite once they come to terms with the past and who they are

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Gail feels guilty for not protecting Kay from being taken as part of the Stolen Generation

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Kay is forced to leave her family and start anew with a white family in the city

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Many down-trodden characters attempt to and sometimes succeed in overcoming oppression

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Those in positions of power or self-appointed superiority often take advantage of others eg authorities taking children of the Stolen Generation

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Many characters discover that the world is full of inequality, injustice and intolerance for reasons of race and identity

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The singers are free to travel to Vietnam but ironically will always be imprisoned by their own culture

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Strong relationship between the sisters.

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- Kay wanting to go back to her roots but Gail seemingly resenting her abandonment

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Vietnamese identifying with the girls when they speak Yorta Yorta instead of english like their enemies at the time

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They think they are going on a holiday, except they get bombed.

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and your heritage

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- Kay going back to her roots and aboriginal culture
- Gail forgiving herself for letting Kay be taken
- Dave realising his purpose
- Julie realising that others can't hold her back from her dreams

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abandons her child? goes to Vietnam?

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- a journey of self discovery- Kay

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- Vietnam
- Kay

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Throughout the majority of the film, Kay faces an identity dilemma between being a 'black' person or a 'white' person, not only attempting to prove who she is to herself but to Gail, who has a wide swathe of quotes where she slanders Kay in response to what she perceives as offences.

Gail herself is, for the early part of the film, quite predjudiced against... well, just about everybody white. This is not only due to predjudice she has experienced in her life, but she admits that she is angry due to the fact Kay was taken as a child, an event she holds herself responsible for.

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How the girls are treated and the darker skinned soldiers. Discrimination and displacement in family.
Examples:
- Kay's man being told to keep off other dying solider
- How Gail was treated by Kay at funeral
- Pub owner towards girls