Most police officers had no blackfella cultural background, no knowledge of Aboriginal priorities in life, yet they were the power in the town. They had two police aides, blackfellas, whose job it was to liaise between the blackfellas and police.

Aircraft returning to refuel at about three o'clock have tobogganed down to their spats in the mud whilst early in the morning one could bounce a crowbar on the frozen ground.

Cohesibility is the tendency which one part of matter evinces to unite with another part of matter, so as to form out of different bodies one common mass.

I hung onto the rope like grim death.