No Sugar Jack Davis Analysis

“And that’s why we got dragged ‘ere... So he could have a nice, white little town.” ‘Many of the injustice perpetrated against Indigenous people in No Sugar are the result of a sense pf superiority dominant in privileged “white” Australians’. Discuss
The play ‘No Sugar,’ was a realist drama written by Jack Davis in 1986, which examines the lives of Munday-Millimurra family during the Great Depression as they were removed from their homeland in Northam on the Moore River Settlement. Many of the injustice inflicted upon Indigenous people due to the deficiency of Paternalism along with the privileges given, this allows the white settlers to have advantages over the natives. Davis, the author, shows the lack of autonomy due to unfairness where no character in the play were entitled to control over what occurs throughout their lives and treated as second-class citizens (often demeaned as animals.) Also make

The character Mary was firstly introduced to the audience, as considered as a ‘give girl’ (which means she was only subjected to marry her own tribe), however the, superintendent, Mr. Neal of Moore River Settlement tried to have unwelcome sexual harassment. In one occasion the girl suffered Mr. Neal’s violent assault demonstrated by her submission to him I a conversion “you can belt me if you like, and I am not workin’ in the hospital”. Another example showed in Act Four, scene one where the native kids were forced to attend ‘Cunday School’ which was unusual for Aboriginal culture and beliefs but they were enforced to participate without reasons. ‘He bad boy, that one’ stated by Billy (the black tracker who worked for the whites Government) while belting David, the son of Milly, as he refused to be in ‘Cunday School’ but instead to go swimming. This support the view of injustices among Indigenous people in due to the lack of