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TONY: Gazza, you don't think someone here,
one of us...?
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GAZZA: What? Did that?
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Mate, piss off!
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So, you're pregnant.
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Yvgeny, the officials...
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Nobody wants this.
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AUTOMATED VOICE: Hello, you've reached
Mt. Lawley Family Planning Centre.
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We're sorry we can't take your call...
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Got us out of the office.
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- (INDISTINCT CHATTER)
- Not me.
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I'm thinking what the hell is Wayne up to.
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Stubborn as he is stupid as he is suss.
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Now I have to find Bob's
"Malaysian bloke."
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He knows someone at the refugee camp.
Bob gave him our money.
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He's a liar. A crook.
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It's your dream, not mine.
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- What is then?
- I don't know...
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- Bowie, music.
- (CHUCKLES)
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- BILYA: Uncle Adam warned me.
- What?
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That you’d bow down to ’em.
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To keep my job.
To keep the roof over our head.
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- That's what they did to us.
- Time to go, mate.
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You haven't told her yet, have you?
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- Listen, George.
- (GROANS) Fuck.
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(BREATHES SHARPLY)
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RADIO OPERATOR: 95 FM.
The best of the West never sounded better.
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PETE: The North American Defence Centre
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said this Yank Skylab space station
is plunging to Earth.
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But no-one knows
where the damn thing is going to land.
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MAL: Well, you say that, Pete,
but we've a young Perth woman on the line
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who claims to know
exactly where Skylab is coming down.
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Tilly! Are you listening to this?
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PETE: Okay, so, Tilly,
where is this thing going to hit?
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- TILLY: Perth, Mal.
- PETE: I’m Pete. He’s Mal.
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- Let's get the names right.
- TILLY: Perth, Pete. In about a week.
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Tilly?
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MAL: NASA and the folks in Canberra
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don't seem to know where Skylab will fall,
what makes you so clever?
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TILLY: I've been working with a professor
on this, we applied linear regression.
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The results give a 95 percent confidence
interval of it landing near Perth.
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Tilly?
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TILLY: Uh, Skylab will create
a debris field 100 miles wide
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and a 1000 miles long.
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PETE: Okay, Tilly, I mean,
aren’t you being just a touch alarmist?
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TILLY: What?
That in a week your audience will be zero?
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PETE: Ouch! Oh, Tilly!
All gloom and doom this morning.
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TILLY: No, uh, just... science, Mal.
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- PETE: Yeah, I'm Pete.
- TILLY: (CHUCKLES LIGHTLY) I know.
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(LINE DISCONNECTS)
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PETE: Well, it appears
we've lost Tilly there...
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- JUDY: Hey, while you're in there...
- (BREATHES DEEPLY)
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...have a shower, we've got school.
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MAL: ...thanks to our budding
scientist there, but don’t panic people.
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Come on, sweetie.
You were great, they're just...
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- Idiots. Arrogant, stupid men.
- (INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER RADIO)
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- Well, there’s a few of them about.
- (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO)
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Come on, get ready.
I'll drop you at school.
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You know what?
If we're lucky maybe we can run over
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a breakfast DJ on the way.
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Did you hear that? Tilly, that was nuts!
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No! School. Now!
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- Waves. Me. Surfing. See ya!
- No. Not.
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But there's a surf comp’ tour
that I wanna enter. I have to practise.
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Look, I've told you.
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You quit school for college or a job,
that’s it.
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(UPBEAT MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING
OVER RADIO)
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Tell you what,
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why don't you get ready?
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We're gonna try the job option today.
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(GRUNTS)
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(THEME MUSIC PLAYING)
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(THEME MUSIC CONCLUDES)
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKER)
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(BILYA CHUCKLING)
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You're almost as good as Poppy.
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When she's got her roller skates on.
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- Oh, bugger off!
- (BOTH CHUCKLE)
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- You're good at this.
- BILYA: Ta.
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Don't let anyone tell you different, yeah?
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(CHUCKLES)
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Does Rocco know you're taking his daughter
to the deb?
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(CHUCKLES)
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I don't think Rocco knows much
about what Poppy or Rose get up to.
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I don't think he cares.
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Oh, he'll care if some Black kid
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turns up with this daughter
on the dance floor.
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(SIGHS)
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Listen, I've got to rehearse too.
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(CLEARS THROAT)
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"I'm honoured to be asked to come on air
and talk with you.
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"I've lived in Scarborough for 20 years
and listened to this station.
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"The coastal suburb of Scarborough was..."
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But you don't have to do this, right?
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It's all right.
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It's just a natter about
how I become a teacher.
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- I don't even have to show my face.
- (BILYA GRUNTING)
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You can come along.
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(SIGHS) Really?
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And do they wanna know
what you’ve really been through?
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Or what, Nan?
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Hey, you've gotta tell them the truth.
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Don't let anyone tell you any different.
Yeah?
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Leave it. You can't change the past.
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BILYA: Yeah?
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But Mum reckons we should never forget it.
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Could've told us the truth about Bob.
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Man, he seemed all right. (CHUCKLES)
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- He could've even...
- What's with the bullseye on my bedsheet?
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(CLICKS TONGUE) What?
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Me? No, no.
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- That's weird.
- EILEEN: Hmm.
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(SOFT MUSIC CONCLUDES)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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(DOOR CLOSING)
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No temple?
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You all right?
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- Binh will be late for school.
- LAM: Where is he?
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But you're okay?
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I don't know.
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I thought maybe this time
with Bob's contact and all that money...
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(SOFT MUSIC PLAYING)
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- That we’d have something to show for.
- (BREATHES DEEPLY)
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Someone.
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(KISSES)
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- (BREATHES DEEPLY)
- (SOFT MUSIC FADES)
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(ROCK MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO)
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LAM: You'll be late.
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- (DOOR SLAMMING)
- (CHUCKLES)
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- (ROCK MUSIC CONCLUDES)
- (CAR HORN BLARING)
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(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
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REPORTER: (OVER TV)
How big is it? This Skylab?
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It's a bit hard to find
an earthbound thing to compare it with.
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But as it was when it was launched,
as is now that it's in orbit...
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- (CLICKS TONGUE)
- (YVGENY HUMMING TUNE)
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REPORTER: ...and as it will be
when it falls out of that orbit,
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hits the Earth's atmosphere...
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You have already told your superior,
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so why must you keep us locked up in here?
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YVGENY:
Because he told me to deal with it.
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So only three of us know.
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We cannot afford for anyone to see that.
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- Five days... we'll be gone.
- (KNOCKING ON DOOR)
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(REPORTER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER TV)
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REPORTER: Our story goes back to 1973,
the beginning of Skylab's...
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(KNOCKING ON DOOR)
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(TENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
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- Yes, how can I help you?
- Yvgeny, open the door, please.
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Svetlana has missed
three call times already.
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- I'd like to see her, please.
- Not possible, she's still sick, you see.
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She's asleep now.
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I have 75 girls to look after,
and I'm spending all my time on Svetlana!
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I... I'm sorry, but cannot be helped.
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Miss Adelaide?
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We get drunk again. You flirt. I smile.
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It... It will fix all this? No?
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Tell Svetlana,
if she misses today's ball gown parade,
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she will be disqualified!
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You cannot do that,
she's the representative of the Soviet...
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We can. And we will!
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And you are appalling at flirting.
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What do we do now?
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We could get Mick to help.
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He knows a dressmaker that can help...
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hide this.
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Mick’s business is selling stories
like this. He cannot know.
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He already knows.
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- You told him! Why?
- Yvgeny, it's all right. We can trust him.
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Just let me call him, huh?
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(BREATHES DEEPLY) What choice do we have?
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(WAVES CRASHING)
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(DOOR CLOSING)
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JUDY: Hmm. Nice to see you up.
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(TONY GRUNTING)
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Update, your eldest daughter
has locked herself in the bathroom
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and I don't have time to wait around
for that
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because I am running late for work.
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Besides, it doesn't matter,
it's all gonna be over in a week.
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Life, the universe, the lot...
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(SLURPS) ...apparently. Just ask Tilly.
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- Tilly, hurry up. You're gonna be late.
- You've got a mystery package.
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Do you have a secret admirer, Dad?
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And, uh, this one's coming to work
with me today.
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- Come on.
- Go get the bastards, Mia.
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(DOOR OPENING, CLOSING)
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- (SIGHING)
- (TILLY SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY)
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Tilly.
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(TILLY CONTINUES SPEAKING)
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Tilly, unlock this door.
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Mm-hmm.
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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What are you doing?
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What do you think?
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This is the safest place in the house.
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Tilly.
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Walls and pipes.
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- Sweetheart.
- TILLY: It’s true.
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When Cyclone Tracey hit Darwin,
this... this is where people survived.
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- Tilly, you've got school.
- No one is taking this seriously.
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We have to get ready.
We’ll only get a couple of hours warning.
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Now you listen to me, young lady.
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We'll... We’ll kill each other in here
before Skylab gets us.
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Come with me.
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I've got an idea.
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(WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING)
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(GRUNTS) Come on.
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This way, keep up.
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(BOTH BREATHE DEEPLY)
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That...
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is our shelter.
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- (BIRD CHIRPING)
- (WHIMSICAL MUSIC CONCLUDES)
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- (CHIMNEY CHUGGING)
- (INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
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(MUSIC TURNS MISCHIEVOUS)
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(SIGHS)
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- What? Do you think he's onto us?
- No, he’s not clever enough.
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(LOCK RATTLING)
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Ta-da!
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You do realize you can get three years
hard labour for that?
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Are you sure you want to do this?
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No.
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But don’t want to do another round
of redundancies either.
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So we need to get in there,
figure out what the hell he's up to.
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Find out why he’s trying to block us
from fixing this.
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(BREATHES HEAVILY)
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I'm so done with being the Angel of Death.
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FRANCESCA: Girls!
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(PAPERS RUSTLING)
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Hey, look.
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Do it.
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(DRAWER CLOSING)
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An old speeding ticket.
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A warning from the tax office.
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(CHUCKLING) A threatening letter
from an ex-girlfriend.
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Does Wayne do business overseas?
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Wayne? He thinks Sydney
is a foreign country.
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Japan? Maybe? He’s never mentioned it.
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You know what, this looks like a contract.
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Know any Japanese interpreters?
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- (GRUNTS)
- (MISCHIEVOUS MUSIC FADES)
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(BIRDS CHIRPING)
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- Thanks for this, Dad.
- (TONY GRUNTING)
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- We do what we have to. To stay safe.
- (PANTS)
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- Where did you learn to do this?
- (TONY GRUNTING)
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Here and there.
243
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- When you were in the army?
- (BREATHES HEAVILY)
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Does it matter? (GRUNTING)
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- You reckon this is deep enough?
- (TONY GRUNTING)
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Dad? Dad?
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Hey? No. Keep digging.
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(GRUNTS)
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I’m telling you. Sandy will have Svetlana
ready for tonight's event.
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- Yeah. But can she keep secret?
- Yeah, you can trust her.
251
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You said she is Vietnamese?
252
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South?
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Anti-communist?
254
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Mate, I was there for two years.
I didn’t care what they were,
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as long as they weren’t anti-me.
256
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This cannot go wrong.
257
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What’s it gonna be like for Svetlana,
returning home as a single mum?
258
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Why you care?
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The State helped to look after my boy.
Be same for Svetlana and her baby.
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(SNIFFLES)
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Don’t worry. We will hide your baby.
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You have been here a few years?
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In Australia.
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And Vietnam, you just...
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left?
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We paid someone all we had
to be squeezed into a boat.
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But yes, we left.
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(SIGHS)
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People here. They have no idea
what it is like in our countries.
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How could they?
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They’re free.
272
00:17:09,320 --> 00:17:11,000
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
273
00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:26,880
You see, my friend.
Your spring rolls are great. The best.
274
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But our Malaysian roti?
275
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Well! (LAUGHS)
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And our rice...
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tastes better the next day.
278
00:17:42,280 --> 00:17:44,960
Oh, we could never compete with your rice.
279
00:17:46,080 --> 00:17:49,320
You know who would really love your roti?
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Your son, I know.
281
00:17:53,280 --> 00:17:55,040
There is no news. There is nothing.
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00:17:55,320 --> 00:17:59,160
- Bob gave you our money to find.
- Bob is gone.
283
00:18:02,640 --> 00:18:07,040
Hey, try the roti, please.
Not many guests get the owner cooking.
284
00:18:12,480 --> 00:18:14,520
You weren't running a diner in Vietnam?
285
00:18:16,880 --> 00:18:20,200
Those hands of yours are more suited
to a chalkboard? A desk?
286
00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:23,320
Engineering professor. Hanoi.
287
00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,880
(LAUGHS) And now you sell "dimmies"
to the Aussies.
288
00:18:29,160 --> 00:18:33,560
Hey, sorry, my friend.
No insult. Just a fact.
289
00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:36,280
I was a journalist in Malaysia.
290
00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:38,480
(SCOFFS) Not the best career there.
291
00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:42,440
But promising more than you can deliver
is a good business here?
292
00:18:45,360 --> 00:18:47,320
And so we find ourselves here.
293
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Different worlds. Different lives.
294
00:18:51,920 --> 00:18:56,280
- Everything changing.
- But my son is still missing.
295
00:18:56,440 --> 00:18:58,760
And that can change.
Bob gave you a chance.
296
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- Five thousand dollars bought us that.
- And bought you this roti.
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00:19:05,160 --> 00:19:06,840
But no guarantees.
298
00:19:10,360 --> 00:19:12,760
We have done everything that we can.
299
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:17,440
Your money has not gone into my pocket.
That's for others.
300
00:19:20,800 --> 00:19:22,680
And now we wait.
301
00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:26,320
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
302
00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:32,560
MR TEO: Today, Van is missing,
303
00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:34,800
tomorrow, who knows?
304
00:19:35,720 --> 00:19:36,720
But you...
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must look after your life.
306
00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:42,080
Look after your family.
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Not torture yourself.
308
00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:58,320
And not come here again, my friend.
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00:20:02,320 --> 00:20:03,440
(DOOR CLOSING)
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(SIGHS)
311
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,400
(TYPEWRITER KEYS CLACKING)
312
00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:13,880
FRANCESCA: Judy?
313
00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:16,360
Hiroshi. Judy.
314
00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:20,640
The best barman in Perth,
meet the best general manager.
315
00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:23,040
(EXCLAIMING) Thanks for coming.
316
00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:33,280
- HIROSHI: Huh! Saké?
- (FRANCESCA SIGHING)
317
00:20:33,880 --> 00:20:36,120
- Sambuca.
- (HIROSHI SCOFFS)
318
00:20:36,400 --> 00:20:38,480
I take it you're not here
for Fran's rocket fuel.
319
00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,560
I do my best to educate her
about real drinks.
320
00:20:43,840 --> 00:20:45,600
- Where is it?
- (PAPERS RUSTLING)
321
00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:48,640
It’s a contract.
322
00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:50,560
Contract for what?
323
00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,600
Contract of sale.
324
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:54,840
Sale of what?
325
00:20:56,000 --> 00:20:57,520
Looks like a company.
326
00:20:58,360 --> 00:21:00,160
How can he afford to buy a company?
327
00:21:00,280 --> 00:21:02,920
Doull's Power Supplies
is barely staying afloat as it is.
328
00:21:03,720 --> 00:21:08,400
Ah, it’s Doull Power Supplies
that’s being sold.
329
00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,960
- I might need that drink after all.
- (GLASS CLINKING)
330
00:21:18,360 --> 00:21:20,960
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
331
00:21:25,080 --> 00:21:26,880
(CHILD BABBLING)
332
00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,600
Are you from North or South?
333
00:21:30,240 --> 00:21:31,280
North.
334
00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:35,560
But we had to flee to the South,
and then we had to leave there too.
335
00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:38,920
Tell no one!
336
00:21:40,200 --> 00:21:42,560
Hi! (LAUGHS)
337
00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:44,560
What's her name?
338
00:21:44,560 --> 00:21:46,400
- Anna.
- SVETLANA: Anna. (CHUCKLES)
339
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:51,760
- Tell me, where did you get that pram?
- Boans. Third floor.
340
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,560
Well, when the time comes,
I will go to Boans on the third floor.
341
00:22:00,320 --> 00:22:02,200
You’ll be back in the USSR.
342
00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:04,040
No, no.
343
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:06,680
I'll be at Boans on the third floor.
344
00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:10,320
You’re going to help me defect.
345
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:11,880
(ELEVATOR BELL DINGING)
346
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,320
(CHUCKLES)
347
00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:16,600
(MYSTERIOUS MUSIC PLAYING)
348
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:25,000
(WAVES CRASHING)
349
00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:26,800
This morning.
350
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,200
The makeup.
351
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:31,960
LAM: (SIGHS) Really? Now?
352
00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:36,360
It's gonna be a part of my music.
353
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:41,120
My performance.
Like, all the artists are doing it now.
354
00:22:42,920 --> 00:22:45,080
Your music? Performance?
355
00:22:47,560 --> 00:22:48,560
Dad.
356
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:52,240
You were meant to be studying hard, remember?
357
00:22:53,760 --> 00:22:58,440
(CHUCKLES) But I’m working hard to...
to be a musician.
358
00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:00,520
Like Bowie.
359
00:23:01,800 --> 00:23:04,000
Ambitions are important, Son.
360
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:06,680
But remember what Mick Jagger says,
361
00:23:07,440 --> 00:23:09,920
"You can’t always get what you want."
362
00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,680
We just want you to be happy, healthy,
363
00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:19,440
safe, secure. That's all.
364
00:23:20,800 --> 00:23:23,120
(SPEAKING VIETNAMESE)
365
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:30,240
(IN ENGLISH) A good job, a career,
medicine gives you that.
366
00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,840
I don’t want this for you. Huh.
367
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:41,640
And I want my only son
to be able to look after his parents
368
00:23:41,960 --> 00:23:42,960
when they’re old.
369
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:46,480
Van’s alive.
370
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:49,280
I heard Mum.
371
00:23:52,840 --> 00:23:56,280
- I’m not the only one, Dad.
- No, Binh.
372
00:23:58,000 --> 00:23:59,240
You are.
373
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:02,520
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
374
00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,520
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
375
00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,240
Matty, this won't take long.
We'll have you out of here by 8:00.
376
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:15,400
- There you go.
- SCOTT: I did a few prompt cards for you,
377
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:18,600
so talk about your education,
primary to high school,
378
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,400
uh, entry to Teachers College,
studies there.
379
00:24:21,800 --> 00:24:23,640
Uh, who you received support from.
380
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:25,480
All right, and just, um,
381
00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:28,040
make sure you smile while you speak,
helps with the tone.
382
00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:31,480
And keep it short and sweet.
Emphasis on the "sweet."
383
00:24:32,360 --> 00:24:34,560
So don’t issue an eviction notice, got it!
384
00:24:35,200 --> 00:24:36,200
Scotty!
385
00:24:36,520 --> 00:24:38,440
- SCOTT: Gavvo! Yeah!
- How are you, mate?
386
00:24:38,600 --> 00:24:40,160
- Looking good. Nice suit.
- SCOTT: Thank you.
387
00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:41,640
You must be Eileen.
388
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,080
I hope you're going to be as much fun
as that Mr Bertrude we had in.
389
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:46,640
- (LAUGHING)
- (SCOTT LAUGHING)
390
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:50,440
He was a... He was a riot.
Right. Have a seat, please.
391
00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,440
- (CLEARS THROAT)
- (MAL SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO)
392
00:24:53,720 --> 00:24:54,880
All right.
393
00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,280
- Yeah?
- PETE: (LAUGHS) No fear, mate.
394
00:24:57,480 --> 00:24:59,280
- Home to the better half...
- Okay.
395
00:24:59,280 --> 00:25:00,880
PETE: ...and J.R.,
it's Dallas night tonight.
396
00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:02,600
MAL: Ooh, good on ya, Pete. Enjoy J.R.,
397
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:04,200
and we'll catch you tomorrow, Perth.
398
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:08,320
RADIO OPERATOR: 95 FM.
The best of the West never sounded better.
399
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,320
Turn up the radio, Eileen’s next.
400
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:13,400
GAVIN: Tonight, as part
of the 150th celebrations,
401
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,400
we welcome another local teaching hero.
402
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,160
She's one of our own,
she's also a qualified Aboriginal teacher.
403
00:25:21,280 --> 00:25:23,400
Please welcome Eileen Wilberforce.
404
00:25:25,120 --> 00:25:26,480
Uh. Ta.
405
00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:28,280
Thank you, Gavin.
406
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:32,560
Now, Scott Williamson tells me
that you are a testament
407
00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:36,400
to how far Aboriginal people
have come in the last 150 years.
408
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,680
Tell me, Eileen, how many of those years
have you called Scarborough home?
409
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:45,760
Um, I’ve lived in Scarborough
for 20 years now.
410
00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:48,040
(LAUGHS) You're practically one of us!
411
00:25:55,600 --> 00:25:57,360
- So...
- Um...
412
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,080
I was told recently that I...
413
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,320
that I should never forget my past.
414
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,720
I haven’t. I’ve just not talked about it.
415
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:13,080
Seemed easier that way.
416
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:18,680
But I’m learning that staying silent
doesn’t help...
417
00:26:20,040 --> 00:26:21,360
anyone.
418
00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:26,120
I... I didn't mean to suggest...
419
00:26:26,120 --> 00:26:28,800
Even though I’ve lived in Scarborough
for over 20 years...
420
00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:32,240
I'm a Binjareb Noongar woman.
421
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,360
I was born in a little town south of here.
422
00:26:37,360 --> 00:26:39,880
You might've heard of the place
through your history books,
423
00:26:40,480 --> 00:26:43,200
the Battle of Pinjarra in 1834.
424
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:46,720
Well... let me tell you...
425
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:52,360
- it wasn’t a battle, it was a massacre.
- Oh, now that's... that's a big call.
426
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:58,920
Stirling and his band of merry men
killed about 80 Aboriginal men,
427
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:00,680
women and children.
428
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:02,480
- (INHALES SHARPLY)
- EILEEN: And guess what?
429
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,200
Only one of Stirling’s men died.
430
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,640
My great grandfather’s sisters,
they were kids at the time...
431
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:12,960
they were also murdered.
432
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:19,680
Um, I'm sorry.
I've... I've never heard that.
433
00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:21,520
Yeah, well...
434
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,480
over the generations
not a lot of progress was made for us lot.
435
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,200
Eileen, look at you. (CHUCKLES)
You're... You're a teacher.
436
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:31,880
Yeah.
437
00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,240
But I'm only one of a handful
in this state.
438
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:37,800
And that's not good enough,
is it, Mr Simmonds?
439
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:44,200
Now, do you wanna hear my story or not?
440
00:27:45,040 --> 00:27:46,280
(CHUCKLES)
441
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:48,560
Please.
442
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:51,320
EILEEN: You see, Gavin...
443
00:27:52,320 --> 00:27:56,040
through the generations
not a lot of progress was made for us lot.
444
00:27:57,920 --> 00:27:59,040
When I was a kid...
445
00:27:59,960 --> 00:28:02,960
my mum used to cover me
and my sister in black ash,
446
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,960
every time the authorities raided
the camps for fair skinned kids
447
00:28:07,080 --> 00:28:10,400
to... to civilise and enslave.
448
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,520
They could do anything to us.
449
00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:14,960
We weren’t citizens.
450
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:19,960
In their eyes, by their laws,
we were just merely flora and fauna.
451
00:28:20,720 --> 00:28:24,240
But that didn’t stop my dad
fighting for his country.
452
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,800
In World War I,
he was equal on the battlefield.
453
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:32,600
But back home, he couldn’t even go
to the pub with his mates.
454
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:37,080
It was only 12 years ago
we got citizenship.
455
00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:41,960
And sadly, that was too late for my dad.
456
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:46,840
And this kinda treatment was happening
all over Australia.
457
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:50,400
When I was a young bride...
458
00:28:51,560 --> 00:28:53,600
I was living on my husband’s country.
459
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,520
Beautiful desert country
in South Australia.
460
00:28:57,840 --> 00:29:02,000
Until we were herded off
to Yalata Mission, uh,
461
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,000
that was a couple 100Ks away...
462
00:29:05,840 --> 00:29:10,320
to make way for the British
and the Australian governments
463
00:29:10,440 --> 00:29:11,920
to do their nuclear tests.
464
00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:16,560
You might know the place...
465
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:18,560
Maralinga.
466
00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:25,240
But then, maybe not, because it was all
hush-hush, you know, top secret stuff.
467
00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,520
The government denies it ever happening...
468
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:32,120
but those tests, they went on
for over ten years.
469
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:36,000
My husband’s people,
they were still out on country,
470
00:29:36,480 --> 00:29:37,960
not knowing what was happening.
471
00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:43,720
In 1954, my husband,
he went out searching for ‘em, you know...
472
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,400
- Tony.
- EILEEN: ...bring ‘em into safety.
473
00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:48,520
And I waited...
474
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,120
and I waited for him to come home.
475
00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:55,960
He never did.
476
00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,680
Like other Anangu people,
he died from those bombs.
477
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:05,720
And I... You know, I couldn’t be there
without him, it was too hard, so...
478
00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,040
I came back to my country,
479
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,880
with my eight-year-old daughter
and my unborn son.
480
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,880
And I rolled up my sleeves
and I just got on with it.
481
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,680
And I kept the past in the past.
482
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,200
I've rebuilt my life.
483
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:23,480
For me. For them.
484
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,200
And, yeah, it was hard work,
but I became a teacher.
485
00:30:30,160 --> 00:30:31,240
But...
486
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:34,240
my silence has cost me.
487
00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:40,120
My daughter, I can see that
she's angry at me for it.
488
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:43,520
She’s spent her life
trying to break my silence.
489
00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,480
And my son, he hasn’t talked to me
in over a year.
490
00:30:49,360 --> 00:30:52,360
He’s with his father’s people now,
back at Maralinga,
491
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:55,280
trying to make sense of all the wasteland
that was left there.
492
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:00,840
And I realize now that...
493
00:31:02,080 --> 00:31:06,400
(SIGHS) ...you know,
it's okay to live and speak my truth.
494
00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:10,480
For some things, it’s too late...
495
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:14,120
but right now I feel...
496
00:31:16,640 --> 00:31:17,840
I feel moorditj...
497
00:31:18,840 --> 00:31:20,960
deadly for finally giving it breath.
498
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:24,400
So yeah,
499
00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:29,000
I'll let you decide if you think my story
is a great example
500
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,720
of how far Aboriginal people have come
in the last 150 years?
501
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,040
Eileen Wilberforce...
502
00:31:42,840 --> 00:31:44,560
thank you so very much.
503
00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:49,320
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
504
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,800
(INSPIRING MUSIC PLAYING)
505
00:32:29,080 --> 00:32:32,480
(BREATHES DEEPLY)
506
00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:35,360
- (FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
- JUDY: You coming?
507
00:32:36,720 --> 00:32:39,200
(MUSIC FADES)
508
00:32:51,120 --> 00:32:52,240
What are you doing with that?
509
00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:55,600
Look at that handwriting.
510
00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,200
Gazza was the one that threw it.
511
00:33:04,320 --> 00:33:05,320
What?
512
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:08,520
Don’t be stupid. He would never do that.
513
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:10,840
But he did.
514
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:19,520
I don’t understand. Why?
515
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,200
I mean, he... he’s like family to you.
516
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:26,160
To us.
517
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:33,280
Well, what are we going to do about it?
518
00:33:36,087 --> 00:33:37,160
Not us.
519
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:39,960
You.
520
00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:44,200
This is your battle. Has been for a while.
521
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:50,960
You don’t need me to fight yours.
I can’t fight it like you. (SCOFFS)
522
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:53,520
You’re brilliant.
523
00:33:57,800 --> 00:33:59,080
(EXHALES HEAVILY)
524
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:10,280
What a dickhead.
525
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:15,280
Eileen was...
526
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,040
I know, she spoke so well, I had no idea.
527
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:29,160
I was there.
528
00:34:29,880 --> 00:34:32,600
(INTENSE MUSIC PLAYING)
529
00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:35,480
In a trench...
530
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:40,120
three miles from those A-bombs.
531
00:34:44,320 --> 00:34:45,720
Waiting for the flash.
532
00:34:48,400 --> 00:34:49,440
Maralinga?
533
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:03,840
I was just a kid.
534
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,680
Stood in my own piss.
535
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:12,800
My own fear.
536
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:25,240
You could see...
You could see your own... bones.
537
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:30,440
Your own skeleton through the darkness.
538
00:35:42,480 --> 00:35:43,720
Why didn't you tell me?
539
00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:50,200
I’ve been trying to forget
about that for years.
540
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:52,720
Bloody decades.
541
00:35:54,720 --> 00:35:55,800
But I can’t.
542
00:35:58,200 --> 00:35:59,240
What happened to us.
543
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,080
What happened to the Aboriginals...
544
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:07,720
to Eileen’s family.
545
00:36:14,640 --> 00:36:16,360
(GASPS)
546
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:22,320
(EXHALES SHARPLY)
547
00:36:25,200 --> 00:36:26,440
(SNIFFLES)
548
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:31,760
Well, I guess you've found your battle.
549
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:42,120
(BREATHES HEAVILY)
550
00:37:23,400 --> 00:37:26,000
(INTENSE MUSIC CONCLUDES)