BARYULGIL
‘I am from Baryulgil, where the asbestos mine is. Weekends we use to be up in the mines playing in the asbestos, the dust and whatever. The problem I got now is my lungs: I can’t breathe. I only have a quarter of a lung on the left-hand side. I am on oxygen day and […]…
THE PURPLE HOUSE
‘I came here in the year 2000. When I was really sick. I was in the hospital. I had diabetic and kidney problems. 8 months in the hospital. I didn’t know that I was really sick. Then I went to Renal. I am all right here. I come to the Purple House, sit down and […]…
NOBLE CAUSE
‘I’m from Geraldton. I went to prison for the rest of my life. Been there for ten years of my life. No … I am not free. I am out of prison, but I am not free yet’ MARLON NOBLE YAMATJI MAN ‘He was charged with the sexual abuse and assault of two girls. And […]…
MOTHER
‘‘I’ve got my daughter, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy since birth and my boy, who is 13 years old. He just returned from the boarding school because he was too homesick. He was selected to go Brisbane Boys’ College, but he said “Mum don’t leave me here.” I gotta go back home, so if […]…
THE KUUYANG
‘I am Koori inside my blood, inside my body. I am so proud because I am living in town and it’s called spirit land, and it’s called culture, freedom. Kindly and passionate, and it’s called spirit land. I have done really, really well with my family, I have done really, really well with my relationship, […]…
THE STATESMAN
‘I got into filmmaking and video making. I was one of the founders of Metro Screen way back, 30, 40 years ago. There was nothing around at that time for Aboriginal people to be involved in the arts. I was able to set up the Aboriginal Disability Network. I got the SBS Aboriginal Radio program […]…
PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS
‘I have been a foster parent for 28 and a bit years. I am just taking care of my ex-sister-in-law’s three daughters. Penny has cerebral palsy. I looked at every aspect of what I can do for them before I took them. So within my tribe I am their mother. I am of the same […]…
HONORARY POM
‘How many Paralympics have I been to? I’ve played in 5. My passport back in 1960 was an honorary English passport. They could tell you how many sheep there were in Australia, they could tell you how many cattle. Yet they couldn’t tell you how many Aboriginals there were, because we weren’t allowed to vote. […]…
FRESHWATER SALTWATER
‘The Aboriginal communities, they have this thing, which has been talked about on TV about who’s black and who’s blacker, who’s whiter than them, ‘oh I can get a taxi you can’t.’ Oh, come on, stop it. That is just like kids working out you’ve got three bits of candy and I only have two. […]…
THE MATRIARCH
‘I am the Grandmother of Hudson. It was not right that our little children were growing up in this environment who are living their lives with unique and complex needs as a result of alcohol exposure in utero. So in 2007 the women got together and made a strong and final decision that we would […]…