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Whose comfort matters when a town hides its people?
1950s Australia prizes white respectability, royal loyalty and material progress, while Aboriginal families are pushed aside and expected to endure, even as Gladys says, “It’ll be all right.” These values create shame and surveillance, shaping choices, relationships and resistance.