Satellite Boy Page #2

Come on, boy.

We searched

the road and everywhere

we thought they could've been.

We just can? find them.

See him? Aye? Aye?

Whoo-hoo!

I'm a real space cowboy.

You're crazy.

Kalm, get up.

Country looking after us.

I'm gonna be an astronaut

when I'm big...

cruise to stars, cruise to space.

What, no restaurant?

I thought you were saving the

cinema for you and your mum.

We're dead, cuz.

Real blackfella? I'm hopeless.

No, we alright.

Couldn't sleep.

Nightmares.

Come on, we gotta try. It's Monday.

What is it like to be in country?

Stars.

Fire.

Alive.

Come on now... get up, boy.

Get up!

Come on, brother.

Please, Kalmain, you're strong.

If you don't get up, we're gonna die.

Country helping us, we'll be right.

- Get up' boy.

Come on.

See? Country saved us.

Are you coming or what?

I can't swim.

Come on.

Thought you was in a hurry.

Sorry.

For what?

You're a proper-deadly blackfella.

Good swimmer anyway.

Here, catch one.

Over here!

The front door was open.

Oh, chicken.

Kalmain!

What?

Nothin'. Biggest bed, aye?

Kalm!

- I'm not going back home.

- Why not?

Why would I go back

to that dump anyway?

Where you go?

I got plans. I'm gonna keep going -

I'm not stupid.

What does that mean?

Your mum left,

she's not coming back.

Everyone knows it but you.

She is coming back! She promised.

- What do you know anyway?

- She doesn't care about you.

That's why she left in the first place -

she doesn't want you.

At least she's not a useless pisshead.

She got a brain,

she gonna be something.

Shut up!

Whoa.

Don't need a spear now.

- Where you get that from?

- House back there.

No-one can make me go back now.

I'm gonna be a bandit.

Is it loaded?

Course it is.

You're gonna blow your balls off.

Yeah, 'cause mine's bigger than yours.

Here.

Here, you take it.

Come on.

Come on.

Where's this Mainstay mob, anyway?

In town.

Come on, boy.

Hey, Uncle?

We looking for Mainstay Constructions.

Oh, that's the mining mob.

They're back out here

on this road out here.

Come on. Thank you, Uncle.

That's the mine office up there.

Excuse me.

- Hello!

- Yeah, no worries.

Excuse me. Aye? Excuse me, mate.

Man, what's wrong with you?

What do you want?

- Can I talk with the manager?

- No.

What are you doing here anyway?

Stay right there.

Mate, head down to the second pit.

We're nearly there.

There. Come on.

- We made it, bala.

- That's the manager office there.

Let's go.

What the bloody hell do you think

you're doing here?

- It's dangerous.

- You the manager?

As if.

Come on, you gotta go

out to the gate, boys.

You know who own the place -

the cinema screen

where me and Jubi stay?

Come on, we're working here.

Go the office there.

- Make sure you get there. Run!

- Oi, oi! Stop!

Stop!

MAN; Oi!

Stay there.

Don't do it! No!

Bra!

Bra, stop!

- What are you doing? Go.

- No.

- Run!

- Don't do it.

Kalmain!

And in the East Kimberley,

an update on an incident

at Waterford Mine

involving two young boys

from a remote community.

Mine officials have declined to comment

on how two young boys remained

undetected in a blasting area.

According to witnesses...

Mate, you gotta look for Pete.

- He comes whenever he like to.

- "with a firearm.

His mum's there.

The firearm was discharged

during the incident,

but no injuries were recorded.

The two young boys,

previously listed as 'missing',

are in police custody.

The boys claimed their home

was being bulldozed

by a mining company.

The media outcry has stopped

all work at the old cinema.

Tough little buggers.

Mum!

Hey!

He's coming with me. He just got lost.

Come on, sweetheart.

He's headed for Boys' Home.

You're right, bala.

I'll be right.

I'll come visit you anytime.

We famous, bro. We on TV.

You a hero now.

Hey... friends forever.

Family forever.

- Forever.

- Forever.

Come on, little man.

What flavour?

Mulberry...

with a berry on the top.

Look what I found.

Jubi said you get seashell

in the desert.

- I didn't believe him at first.

Can you hear the ocean?

You need a new shin.

- It goes well with your shoes.

- It don't fit me.

You look handsome.

You look like new boy now, see?

So how's Jubi?

Yeah, Jubi's alright -

yarning up, sitting round the campfire.

Jubi teach me

to walk across the desert -

me and Kalmain.

If it wasn't for him... me and

Kalmain would've been dead.

Mum, I just want you, me, Jubi

to be back together. Aye, Mum?

What were you thinking, sweetheart?

Come on, let's go.

Well, I'm still doing this course, Pete.

Hospitality.

Ah, hospitality didn't work out so well.

I'm doing a different course -

beautician course.

What about our barra shack, our cafe?

Well, it's an amazing dream, Pete,

but... I've got an even better idea.

Let's go to Perth.

It's a big city with traffic lights,

proper houses,

big shopping centres.

I can go shopping there.

Hey, we both can go shopping.

What about Jubi - he comin?

Jubi, he'll be right where he is.

Stop the car. Stop the car!

Stop the car, Mum. Stop the car!

- Stop the car, Dave.

- What?!

- Stop the bloody car!

- Stop the car!

- What is it now?

- Easy, right?

I wanna go back to Jubi.

I hated leaving you. You know that, aye?

You was here the whole time.

Why didn't you call me,

come for a visit, aye?

Listen, Pete, I can take us to Perth,

get us a nice house,

give us a proper life.

You can have everything you want,

any toys.

New bike, video games - anything.

Jubi don't need all that.

He got feeling for country.

Every day you was gone, he look after me

with his old ways, stories...

- He'll be fine with his old ways.

- His old ways saved my life.

But, sweetheart,

I wanna live in the city.

I need you to come with me... please?

You go be a beautician in the city.

That's what you want, aye?

That'll make you happy.

It's OK, Mum - you got your dreams,

I got my dreams.

I'm sorry.

Drop me back into town, aye?

Jubi! I missed you, Jubi.

Oh!

I missed you, Jubi.

I missed you, Jubi.

Which way are we going now?

Go back country.

Country.

Yeah, go back country.

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