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Alice (Bennendine Woods) is hitchhiking and a ute stops to pick her up. When she sees classmate Mick (Donald Dale) already in the car, she reluctantly gets in. The driver is drunk, tired and driving erratically. When he refuses Alice’s offer to drive Mick and Alice get out.
Curator’s notes
Again this scene breaks all the rules. Drink driving, hitchhiking and no seatbelts all add up to a total disregard for safety but the strong-minded Alice is not prepared to put up with it. This scene really captures the larrikin frontier nature of life in the outback that is so different to city living down south. I particularly love the driver’s response to Alice’s offer to drive – there is no problem at all with her being a kid, it’s because she’s a ‘shelia’!
