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A biographical play about Caroline Chisholm’s efforts to help immigrant women in Sydney find work and establish themselves, and her struggle to win cooperation from Governor George Gipps while balancing her public work with her family obligations.
When a Queensland town’s mayoral candidate stages a corroboree to raise money for a playground on an Aboriginal settlement, community spokesperson Vic Filmer leads resistance to the expansion that would dispossess traditional landowners. In the conflict, he accidentally shoots his wife.
Marion, a young white woman who divides her time between Brisbane and Moreton Island, begins a relationship with Tom, an Indigenous young man. Their relationship affects the family and island community amid racial prejudice, isolation, and social expectations.
A biographical play about Caroline Chisholm’s efforts to help immigrant women in Sydney find work and establish themselves, and her struggle to win cooperation from Governor George Gipps while balancing her public work with her family obligations.
When a Queensland town’s mayoral candidate stages a corroboree to raise money for a playground on an Aboriginal settlement, community spokesperson Vic Filmer leads resistance to the expansion that would dispossess traditional landowners. In the conflict, he accidentally shoots his wife.
Marion, a young white woman who divides her time between Brisbane and Moreton Island, begins a relationship with Tom, an Indigenous young man. Their relationship affects the family and island community amid racial prejudice, isolation, and social expectations.