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The Fringe Dwellers (1986)

play May contain names, images or voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
clip Main street education content clip 1

Original classification rating: PG. This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

The family’s truck, laden with their possessions, begins its crawl down main street. The white townsfolk watch the truck as it makes its way to the new family home.

Curator’s notes

We begin to get the idea that in the small town the Aboriginal people are constantly watched, observed, and usually ridiculed. The poverty of the Aboriginal family means that there is class conflict as well as race conflict. The family, motivated by Trilby to get out of the fringe camp, arrive in town but are oddly out of context.