Hugh Watt's destructive denial of Coonardoo finishes in tragedy as he pushes Coonardoo into the fire and exiles her from Wytaliba. The white prejudices and social white naturalised assumptions cause Hugh to go mad and he ends up losing Wytaliba and Coonardoo forever. Although Hugh cares for his people in Wytaliba (contrasting to Sam Geary, owner of Nuniewarra and Mollie, Hugh's wife), he also ends up subtly exploiting the Aboriginals through his destructive denial, possessiveness, and madness. We find out, as the story progresses that Hugh is represented by the masculine energy of fire and is representative of the social white ideologies that were the norm in the late eighties through to the mid nineties. Therefore, we realise that it is not so much a "who" (Hugh) but instead, a "what" (social white prejudices). Hence, the blame must lie for the most part with Hugh, who ultimately ends...