“beauty consultant” Deidre Chambers

We learn that Perry and Muriel, both high school dropouts, have been unemployed for a considerable time, in Muriel’s case for two years.

David Van Arckle, the film’s South African swimming star wants to marry a local woman so that he can gain

Australian citizenship

She has only one aim in life – to prove that she’s “somebody” and a “success” by getting married.

refusing her father’s demands to help him look after her siblings.

Bill Heslop, as the local government official who almost made it to State Government. He mythologies himself as “Bill the Battler” (“Been battling all me life”

Bribes

“beauty consultant” Finally were goin home today 2 weeks in this dump of a town. How can people live in a town like this with no surf and no Macdonald’s or nothing fun to do at all. It’s bad enough staying here for 2 whole weeks yet alone living here. Seriously what is there to do here all I’ve done since I’ve been here is read the same surf mags over and over again and hang out at that old jetty where that old guy is always fishing and selling those dirty maggots that he calls gents, why the hell does he call them that where’d he get that name from. I don’t think ive seen one hot chick in this town or one that dresses decently, The best thing that has happened since I’ve been here is that shooting where all those bloody abbos got shot serve em selves right I reckon, they shouldn’t of even been here in the first place.

And there’s no cool kids to hang out with they’re either poor or weird or something. And why do they all wear footy shorts all summer its like they don’t even sell board shorts in this town it wouldn’t surprise me. The only half decent kids to hang out with are Blacky, Dazza, Pickles and Mark and they’re not even that cool.

Like that Pickles kid he’s always dressing in cheap scabby clothes and he’s constantly scratching his balls I reckon their gunna fall off one day. And how is he selling those maggots that’s disgusting just looking at em makes me wanna spew.

And Blacky he’s always asking questions and hes such a wimp never wants to do anything bad. And how was he goin to that abbos funeral what’s the deal there I bet he was the only white kid there. I dunno what Cathy saw in him he’s so ugly and its obvious she hasn’t got a good look of those teeth on him, why doesn’t he get braces or something does he want