THE WILD MAN
‘My name is Josh Lennox and I love to paint and I like doing Aboriginal painting. Painting makes me feel happy they give me joy.’ JOSH LENNOXKALKADOON MOB ARTIST ‘Josh Lennox is a proud Kalkadoon man, who at the age of 2, as a result of a car accident, acquired a severe brain injury that has […]…
STANDING TALL
‘Being an Aboriginal, I think it gives a great deal of pride and sense of purpose as well. So a lot of the work I do is going out into the community and talking with people, whether it be school groups or senior citizens. Making those connections in the first place and saying, well yes, […]…
SOUND OF SILENCE
‘I didn’t want to accept the fact that I was deaf, ‘cause I wanted to be a hearing person so I could fit in with their world. I didn’t know where I should fit. Mum never told me about my nationality until I was 14, and I asked her “Why didn’t you tell me this […]…
TATTOO
‘As I was getting a drink, he just came in and poured petrol over me and lit me up. I was 6 years old when it happened. My feeling towards him are, well, I do forgive him, you know, because what I’ve been through made me who I am today. Because I am Aboriginal myself […]…
SOUL DEEP
“I feel like being an aboriginal with a disability is a tough road on both paths where I’m eternally burning to take the fight and let the world recognize the true meanings of what it is to have a disability, to be indigenous and the combination of both. My Aboriginal heritage comes from the Kamillaroi tribe and comes […]…
THE MJD
‘I live in Warooko on Groote Eylandt, and this is my story to talk about the MJD. From my two sisters and down to my younger brother they have got this MJD and I was the luckiest one that didn’t have the MJD. But with my brothers I never sat next to them and never […]…
THE HANGING TREE
‘I’m from Mowanjum near Derby, WA, in the far north Kimberley. We have a big problem with alcohol in the community and there is a lot of mental problems. Every suicide that we have, they see the ambulance come round and the policemen. They got a person hanging from a tree and them kids 8 […]…
THE STOLEN
‘They said they had this place up at Hay, in NSW, it was a Japanese World War II prison, and they turned it into an institution for young girls. They weren’t allowed to talk, had to keep eyes on the ground. I got raped there and I was only a girl. I hate the feeling […]…
MALPRACTICE
‘Aunty Carol Carter, acquired Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) as a result of malpractice by her local doctor, who failed to check her medical records and prescribed medication she is allergic to. Within 48 hours she was hospitalised. Her body’s immune system attacked part of her peripheral nervous system, leaving her paralysed. Carol was unable to access […]…
THE ACTIVIST
‘I am the mother of a 2-year-old boy with Achondroplasia, which is the most common form of dwarfism. Not knowing anything was the scariest part. Nothing can ever prepare you for when the doctor says there’s something wrong with your child. From that day on our lives have never been the same. Now it’s just […]…