The Aborigine can not be the first one to choose. They always have the second options and they are always the second. They have to know what white‟s
decision first, and then they can have what they want. Although The Aborigines have money, they do not have a right and authority because they are inferior, and
The Whites are superior. That is why they need someone to recommend them a place to rent. For example; a white man who say that he will not use the
placeroom where The Aborigines want to stay. It means The Aborigines can use it if the white say that he will give the place for the Aborigine to rent.
5. Alice in Town after Dark
Aborigines were not allowed in town after dark. They were only in freely during the daylight hours. If they want to go to evening pictures, they had to get
permission from the police. As the war went on things started getting stricter and stricter. The police rounded up all the foreigners working on farms around the
place and held them as prisoners.
Then they brought in a law that Aborigines weren‟t allowed in town after
dark. We were only allowed to come in freely during the daylight hours, and if we wanted to go to evening pictures we had to get permission from
the police Nannup 1992:174.
The Aborigine would get that by going down the station and asking if they could go to the pictures that night. If the sergeant was agreeable, he would give a
little card. That was an official permission to be out for the night, and the Aborigibe should show that to anyone who asked for proof that they were allowed
to be in town.
The Aborigine even had a difficulty to do activity in the evening. They had to get permission first from the police. Although they already asked for
permission to the police, the police may not give the permission. If they got the permission, the police would give the Aborigine a little card for proof. It was
because someone may ask them whether they had a card or not, which meant they were allowed in town after dark. The whites were afraid if the Aborigine did
criminal in town after dark. The whites were being caution and they wanted to make sure that they were safe even if the Aborigine was freely in town after dark.
6. Alice in the Aborigine Department
Aboriginal people who received inheritance, any money left to them will become the property of Aborigines department. The Aborigine family could not
have it. When Alice‟s father died, her father left her some money. The money was sent to the Aborigines department, but Alice said she never got it. The department
never even bothered to let her know that her family died. Over the years different
people tried to find that money for her, but they never had any luck.
I‟ve since found out that when this happened, if Aboriginal people received an inheritance, any money left to them became the property of the
Aborigines department Nannup 1992:179.
Alice could have really used that money her father left her, and it would have made the world of difference to her family. For the Aborigine did not have
any authority or high position, the white could do whatever they wanted to do towards them. Even the whites took what was not theirs. The Aborigine could not
have the inheritance from their own family. They wanted to complain about it, but
