2011 - Theses - Flinders University

White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume One Creative Writing Component: Excerpted Chapters from Volume Three Appendix Onecountry’ for him. I looked at his long brown fingers resting on the table beside his lighter, andthen at his blue eyes watching a lizard skitter through his yard, and wondered. Does thatmixture of Irish and Aboriginal heritage make a difference? I look at my son, tanned a darkbrown and with dark eyes in a broad face, product of at least two generations of Anglo-CelticAustralians. Where is ‘home-country’ for us? Where do we belong?Nepabunna, December 20th 1935It was mail day, Friday, when the truck loaded with boxed orders, forty-four gallon drums,and the heaped calico torsos of station mail bags pulls to a stop in the middle of theassembled and waiting community. Jim is there in the midst of them, to untie the ropes andpull down the parcels for the store, the sacks of rations, and the tight necked mail bag. Tedhelps him, as does Ted’s nephew Andy, Dick’s oldest son, and about Jim’s age. Andy hasonly recently come to camp, but is a handy sort of fellow.122