The Last Wave Page #3

- I don't know.

It's just a feeling.

Little things.

One of them says they

knew Billy only slightly.

Another one says they were old friends.

Things like that.

"Latest evidence suggests that

the Aboriginal people have been here...

for over 50,000 years."

A few blacks...

get drunk, have a fight,

kill a man.

It seems simple.

They get three or four years.

Perhaps they're tribal Aborigines.

Don says there aren't any

tribal people in the city.

Maybe he's wrong.

Darling,

he works with these people.

[Sighs]

Well, I'm going to bed.

- You come too.

- No.

- I must do some more work.

- That's not the real reason, is it?

You're worried

you won't be able to sleep.

Sweet dreams.

Don't drink too much coffee.

- Good night.

- Good night.

[Thunder Rumbling]

[Animals Noises, Wind Howling]

[Thunderclap]

[Croaking]

Yeah, it's been raining,

hasn't it? Very hard.

[Grace] Daddy said we could have

cream on our toast.

[Sophie]

I'm putting rice balls on mine.

What did he talk about?

What, what, what did he say?

Oh, he said he knew things...

um, that, um, uh, he had things.

He, uh,

said that he could get rich.

What sort of things

do you think he had?

Oh... an old kangaroo skin?

You know the way these blokes

brag when they're drunk.

[David]

Why do you think they attacked him?

I don't think.

I got work to do.

What have the Aborigines got to say for

themselves? There's nothing here of any value.

They won't tell me anything...

nothing important.

You mean, you couldn't get

anything out of them.

I don't know.

I've been reading about a case in the

desert region above South Australia...

a tribal killing.

Some of the men were talking

about tribal secrets.

A woman overheard them. One of the men

broke a bottle and... slit her throat.

- [Man Whistling]

- So?

- They were let off.

- [Glass Shatters]

- Bastard!

- The judge...

put them in the hands

of, of his tribal elders.

Uh, they speared him in the leg three

times, and that was his punishment.

Yes. Well, the tribal law angle

might work...

if you were dealing with

tribal people in a tribal area.

But we're not.

These are city people.

- You might be wrong.

- Oh, come on, David!

I think I've got to dispel

a few romantic notions you seem to have.

Number one:
The traditional

culture of the Aborigines...

only survives among full-bloods

in the far north...

and in some parts of the desert.

The nearest tribal Aborigines

live a thousand miles from Sydney.

Number two:
The people we call

Aborigines in the cities...

are no different culturally

from depressed whites.

We destroy their languages...

and their ceremonies,

their songs, their dances...

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