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* [[Abusive Parents]]: In ''Back to Billabong'' Tommy's step-mother is emotionally and financially abusive towards Tommy, while her father is indifferent. In ''Billabong Riders'' Rob Flynn's guardian, Sid Flynn, is physically abusive.
* Aesop: Averted for most part. This is lampshaded in ''Bill of Billabong'' when a surly-tempered Bill is given a book to read about a very good little child, which he throws out of the window of the train he is traveling in.
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* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Sir John in ''Jim and Wally''}}
* [[Huge Guy, Tiny Girl]]: Jim and Tommy.
* [[Large and In Charge]]:
* [[Love Triangle]]: Averted in ''Billabong's Daughter. Wally is in love with Norah, but thinks that Norah has feelings for Bob. He's wrong.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Norah and Jim's mother died when Norah was a baby. Tommy and Bob Rainham's mother also died when ''they'' were young. Rob Flynn in ''Billabong Riders'' is mourning the recent loss of his mother.
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