![]() ![]() Judy Dick - Primary school teacher Miss Walker It is brilliant stuff.ĭavid Gulpilil - Aboriginal loner Fingerbone Bill The way the Aboriginal is portrayed remains modern even after a few decades. I saw it first as a child and then the other night as an adult and I just thought it was magnificent. She means well, but she is resented by the father - he doesn't want anything to change in their reclusive life. ![]() She is concerned about the boy's education, and pushes hard for him to be sent to school, or at least to do schoolwork by correspondence. Two are never seen again, but one, Mr Percival, keeps coming back.Īnother intruder is the new primary school teacher, brought by the park ranger. Three pelicans become a lot to feed when they reach maturity, so his father insists on releasing them. Mick's father resents any intrusion of their secluded life, be it a washed-up radio or a mob of idiot bird shooters who kill a number of birds before they are scared off by Fingerbone.Īmongst the dead are some pelicans whose chicks are still in the nest. ![]() He is not attending school he is illiterate and ignorant. He lives with his father, who supports them by fishing alone. This boy is growing up in an isolated corrugated iron shed next to a wildlife sanctuary. Storm Boy tells the story of a 10-year-old boy, called Mick by his father Tom, and Storm Boy by the Aboriginal loner Fingerbone he befriends. ![]()
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