Throughout Australian history a racist attitude towards Aboriginals has been a significant issue. The instant the early settlers arrived on our shores and colonised, the Aboriginals have been fighting for the survival of their culture. The Aboriginals have been oppressed and dominated to bring them in line with an idealistic European society. Racism, as practiced against Aborigines, has been defined as the ‘conscious or unconscious belief in the superiority of persons from European ancestry, which entitles all white peoples to a position of dominance or privilege determined by racial origin'. This theme of racism has been put forward by Jack Davis in his stage play, No Sugar, the story of an Aboriginal family's fight for survival during the Great Depression. Jack Davis uses a white medium to present Aboriginal views as a revisionist text. He has used what has been termed "jarring witness" as one who questions and disrupts the versions of others. In this case the Aboriginals......
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