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 OneDaisy contemplated the dull photo of the Oruba, waiting for the memories to make theirway forward.‘There was a lot of people came out. There was another lady came out, she always talkedabout. She was Mrs. Mustan now… She come out too, that was the two. She always usedto talk about her, but they didn’t meet up with one another after they split up from Sydney.One come this way I think and got married around Port Augusta there, and the other oneNSW.’ 31I asked if it was an adventure for them coming out and if it would have been scary forthem?‘I don’t know if it would have been scary or what. My grandmother reckoned, Rebeccareckoned, if she meets her first Aboriginal man she’s going to marry one. I think she donethat. Yes, so she knew what she was coming out for.’ 32 Daisy was laughing at the thought.We studied the picture again, and I slid a copy I had made of it from inside the plastic sleeveand gave it to Daisy to keep.Islington, London 1908As 1908 wears on, the German Kaiser becomes more and more strident in his criticisms ofKing Edward and England quietly stiffens its defences. 33Beck has a habit of snipping neatrectangles from the flimsy paper of the daily’s, and now she spreads them out in front of her,in order: things she cares about, worries about, what makes her laugh, and the serial novelsshe can’t wait to get hold of each day. Ancient clippings of the Aboriginal cricket team inEngland from her father are sorted beside images of Australia’s Federation, a ticket fromSpencer’s Lantern Slide show, and a more recent advertisement hurriedly snipped and tuckedaway, like a secret. She is thirty-five years old—nearly thirty-six—single, and restless.26