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Who scared the wallaby?

Now, son.

You're scaring the animals away.

What are we going to eat?

Just watch and learn.

One day your time will come

to be a hunter.

Okay son?

Hey, you hungry?

Bush plums. Keep you going.

I want this spear.

No, this is mine.

I am the snake. Baywara.

I strike like lightning.

My name is Baywara.

I am the snake.

And you.

Your totem is the crocodile.

Your name is Gutjuk, means hawk.

This is your dance.

It's okay.

Please help us.

Station men are chasing us.

It's okay, they're friendly.

Why is Gutjuk in such a hurry to grow up?

He only wants to be with the men.

Gutjuk, come here.

Wallaby's ready to eat.

Sit down with your mother.

He needs to learn his place.

Gutjuk, come back.

Station owners got the police because we killed a cow.

I understand. You may stay.

But only for one night.

I don't want trouble for my family.

It's our land we should fight.

How far away are they?

I think we lost them.

Baywara. Stop.

What are you saying?

What are you telling me?

I'll come back.

Breathe through here.

That's good.

Stay under. I'll be back.

All good.

My children, my family.

Who did this to my family?

Wak Wak, my beautiful daughter.

My beloved daughter.

Baywara my son, look at me.

You'll be okay.

I will heal you.

Travis. Police coming.

Okay.

The wild mob. They're here.

Who are you?

What do you want?

Baywara. He's my uncle.

Go on, spear me.

You can tell my uncle you killed his nephew.

Leave him.

Uncle?

Gutjuk?

They went for it.

Go to Baywara.

Tell him I'm bringing the police out to him.

- Okay? - Yes, I heard you.

Look after yourself.

It's their war not yours.

Don't trust them.

Tea is too weak.

Another fella coming.

Bad fella that one.

Queensland native policeman.

He kills his own.

Bush plums.

Take his gun.

Keep your eyes on him.

I got him. He's no trouble.

He's old and slow.

Short and fat.

He has hair like a woman.

Gutjuk you did well.

You're finished with the mission. Your life starts now.

Yes. Okay.

Where are we going?

Your grandfather's country.

What are you going to do with him?

I think he's a good man.

Don't worry.

If I wanted your friend dead I would have killed him back there.

Is she your woman?

She's nobody's. Too wild that one.

Your son's mob are coming.

Is that your grandson?

There's a white man.

Why did you bring him here?

We can use him to bargain.

I don't want anything to do with this.

Father, you said if I was in trouble you would help me.

Not when you do something like this.

Then let's cut him to pieces.

No. This madness stops now. Take me to him.

Shut up.

You've got a big nose.

I don't care. I just want him dead.

Give him back his gun.

I don't like this idea.

You can't trust them. You know what they did.

I want you to look after this place.

We need to make peace.

You're going to get him killed.

You understand?

You're a mission boy pretending to be a man.

You don't know what you're doing. You're weak.

You're all weak.

Cowards.

Cowards who talk when they should fight.

You're going on the word of a white man?

And a mission boy?

You don't speak for me.

I speak some of your language so I can translate for you.

Are you the woman who raised my grandson?

My brother and I.

Thank you. But my grandson can speak for me.

See the shiny thing on his hat?

Makes him think he's boss.

Baywara just attacked another station.

We all have to go.

We need to look after our own.

We have to find Baywara and warn him.

No. He's brought this on himself.

Families come. We go home now.

We need to look after the land, ourselves and our children.

Trouble is coming.

I took the preacher's old gun. Be careful.

Don't watch.

I don't want their water.

You pretending to know what you're doing?

You stay on the high ground, you see everything.

You think like a white man.

This is where they killed my family.

Baywara, we can't wait for her any longer.

We wait.

She's one of us.

How many are coming?

Maybe four.

Let them come.

They send men and we'll send them back ghosts.

No. If we fight them when they're ready we lose.

We need to run and make a plan.

We need to have control.

You don't tell me what to do.

Listen to him.

What have you got to say?

That man, Travis.

He was a soldier.

He told me control is everything.

Okay.

And he taught me this.

Are you a crazy child?

What are you doing?

I'm just explaining to him.

You think you know everything?

Twelve years, and the one thing I learned for sure,

about the men who killed my family.

They were soldiers.

Understand?

Are you going to follow your uncle's path?

This stone.

This stone is the spear head.

It is the rule of law. It cannot be undone.

Hardest stone there is.

I want this spear.

No, this is mine.

Baywara could've been our greatest teacher.

But he lost all that to his anger.

Understand?

We didn't help him.

You need to listen to the wind.

Listen to father sky.

Listen to mother earth.

To what she is telling you.

Walk softly.

Stay here. Protect yourself.

You can't follow your uncle's path.

I used to work at a station.

I cooked food and cleaned the floor.

Boss man thought he owned me.

I was a girl ... just a little girl.

I told my family.

He killed them all.

He gave me to his men.

I know how it feels to be beaten.

To feel like nothing.

That's why you have to stay angry

and keep fighting.

Your anger is all you have.

People way over there.

Fires burning.

See them?

They might be police.

- Let's go to them. - Yes, let's go.

Let's go down, see where those fellas are sitting.

Bullets.

Throw them on the fire.