3. Alice in the Cafe
If there was alcohol, white people will not allow Aborigines to be there or
anywhere where alcohol was being served. “Besides, if they had alcohol there then that cancelled us out because we weren‟t allowed to be on a licensed premise,
or anywhere where alcohol was bei ng served.” Nannup 1992:161.
If an Aboriginal person was caught drinking alcohol they would get a sixmonth gaol sentence Nannup 1992:181. Alcohol is usually served in a café,
restaurant, or in a party. The Aborigine could not be there. Alcohol was usually drunk when there were a special occasion or to celebrate something. The
Aborigine could not be anywhere where alcohol is served and caught drinking alcohol or they would get a six month gaol sentence. It was also a threat for the
Aborigine to not drink alcohol, so that they could not have fun while drink alcohol. It meant that the Aborigine could not join the whites to have fun in a
party, or any events.
4. Alice in a Boarding House
Aboriginal family had to find someone to recommend a place to rent. Even if they had money, they could not find a place to rent. White people had the
first option there. Alice was speechless knowing that. She felt terrible, but she said that she was not living there because she wanted to. She had four kids, and
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teady work wasn‟t easy to get.
Even if you had the money you couldn‟t just go and find a place to rent – white people had first option there. If you were an Aboriginal family you
had to get someone to recommend you for a place to rent Nannup 1992:167.
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.
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