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“Producing a theory of race and racism that avoids the commonplace pitfalls of either cultural essentialism or class reductionism is no easy task. To do so, however, is imperative to challenge this racist, colonialist, and imperialist world.”

It is this tension, marked by the relations between disadvantaged Indigenous characters and the quietly caring Hurley, that creates this liminal sensation, this incredible depiction of the loss, the listlessness, the thwarted hopes, the limbo of Indigenous people in Australia today.