“Where are you going to sit?” a burly rodeo master asks young girl Molly, gesturing towards a group of Aboriginal townspeople: “On our side, or with the animals?”
The line draws a palpable wince from the audience but would not be misplaced in 1969, when new Australian musical Panawathi Girl is set: just two years after a landmark referendum gave the federal government the power to make laws for Aboriginal people.
