Dinny Cahoon and Eddy McCusky, administrator of the Aboriginal people, both of whom have their own patronising views of the boy's future. He finally ends up in Jeremy's care. Australia agrees to take in thousands of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany and two of them, Dr. Kurt Hoff and Rebecca "Rifkah" Rosen arrive in Beatrice. They claim to be there as part of the plan to build a Jewish State in Australia. The pair have suffered horrors at the hands of the Nazis, including forced sterilisation, and Rifkah especially finds herself in love with the Australian landscape and the Aboriginal people. Several men in town, including Jeremy, are forcefully attracted to Rifkah, however she rejects them all, in part because she is sterile and believes that any husband will eventually want children. Rifkah remains at Lily Lagoons where she develops a close relationship with Prindy and Nanago. Alfie comes to visit Lily Lagoons. She has joined a group of Australians called the Free Australia Party (based on the real-life Australia First Movement) who are nationalists who also believe in the White Australia policy and are strongly anti-semitic. Alfie claims to have proof that Kurt and Rifkah are actually members of the Communist Party in Australia to recruit members. Kurt confesses to Jeremy that this is true, and Jeremy's connections smuggle Kurt out of the country to save him. Concerned that Rifkah will be deported, Jeremy's son Clancy plots to marry her, thus giving her Australian citizenship. She explains to Clancy that she does not want to marry him but, one night, a drunken Clancy attempts to rape Rifkah and she flees. She finds herself in open water, being attacked by sharks, and is saved by Father Stephen Glascock, the minister at a mission for Aboriginal Australians on Leopold Island. Robert Menzies becomes Prime Minister of Australia and Aboriginal policy changes. There is now greater fear Prindy will be taken by the state again, so Jeremy arranges to transport him to the island mission also, where the boy and Rifkah can live discreetly out of the public eye. Jeremy heads to Sydney, at Alfie and Frank's invitation, where he is introduced to the men who run the Free Australia Party. The party is a mix of communists and fascists, who believe strongly in the supremacy of white Australians. Despite claiming to be supporters of Jeremy's outspoken views, many of the members