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The Fringe Dwellers
1986 · Film · 98 min
Directed by Bruce Beresford
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
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It was a lure to encourage the curious to look it up alright :-)
Fun questions that might have prompted include: Given the number of lanuages [1] why would a Noongar person [2] from the South West of Western Australia use a word from the Western Desert Group?
To be honest it's something he said in both English (in his work) and Noongar in response to the play | movie The Fringe Dwellers [3] and common usage of the phrase.
Trouble is, like most oral language words, there's no consistent spelling with an internet search hit for the word he did use, however it's similar enough to what I used .. with a harder intial 'G' sound and more of a running hard "ddd" sound in the middle.
My apologies for dragging you down a rabbit hole, I hope you enjoyed the adventure.
[1] https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_highres.jpg
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_(playwright)
[3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091081/