Titlebook: One Bright Spot; Victoria K. Haskins Book 2005 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2005 anthropology.Australia.

婚姻生活

Habituate

侵略者

Was fearfully shocked this afternoonfull implications of the Board’s apprenticeship scheme and was simply aggravated by Miss Lowe’s apparent perversity in refusing to allow her to take Alma back.. When Miss Lowe told her that ‘she had a very good girl available — she was a particularly nice type of girl and would be able to help me in every way,’ Ming immediately accepted her offer.

refraction

A perfect farceransferring Del to another employer would have been an expedient solution to the whole crisis. By telling her new employer of the rape, Del had thrown a major spanner in a mechanism that probably had worked very successfully in similar cases. Ming’s unexpected refusal to let Del go certainly changed everything.

災(zāi)禍

同來(lái)核對(duì)

You must not go against these peoplebefore they could bring the youths in for questioning, but when Todd did arrive he said, as he had done before, that Del was a ‘liar’, and again that ‘she’ll have to be got rid of! she’s got to be mentally examined!’ He added that she was a ‘public nuisance’ and he was ‘going to hand her over to the Board’s control’.

FLEET

構(gòu)想

It makes me ,ng again on 19 September reporting on the APNR’s meeting that day. The ‘upshot’ was that Morley and Salvation Army officer Howard were going to call on Pettitt to ask for Del’s Nortown pass to be sent to Blackheath also and ‘to demand her money’. She told Ming that Morley had been ‘shelving’ the case so far.

Preserve

RAGE

r life. One Bright Spot is about one of these families - about ‘Ming‘, a Sydney wife and mother who hired Aboriginal domestic servants in the 20s and 30s, and became an activist against the Stolen Generations policy. Her story, reconstructed by her great-granddaughter, tells of a remarkable, yet for