Whitefeller

In native title matters, there is a lot of talk about litigation, mediation, negotiation and questions about whitefeller law.

"Me like my country — no much too hot, no much too cold. By and bye, white fellow come — soldier-man come. White fellow say, this our land, that our land — ALL country our land. Black fellow say no! my country no white fellow's country, and black fellow take spear.

Even though they did not work for whites, almost every aboriginal desired a white-feller name. Apparently it helped take away the taint of munjon.

The whitefellers did not let anyone but whitefellers learn their ways properly, he knew that now.

‘No use,’ some friends said, miserably. ‘We can′t take them down until sunset, that is whitefeller law.’

In the distance the whitefeller lights of Bluebush cast an ugly orange pallor into the sky. Gypsy was a Kantulyu woman, grown to adulthood in the desert out west. Hadn′t seen a whitefeller until she was in her twenties.