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After a long journey to their new home, a slab bark hut in pristine bushland, the Rudds settle down to sleep, with seven people in the two beds. A possum and then a goanna come to investigate their new neighbours.
Curator’s notes
Longford extracts rich comedy from this scene without making it too farcical. It tells us these are not country people, at least not yet. It also tells us a lot about their poverty, and their modesty. One of the beds is a four-poster, so the family isn’t destitute, but nor are they well off.
