THE SOLDIER
‘I went forward to check this place out and when I was moving forward I tripped a mine and it blew my leg off. If you are the leader of the push, if you go down, if things don’t work properly, you’ll all go down. You’ll all end up dead. It’s what you gotta do. […]…
MARALINGA
ELDER, YANKUNYTIJATJARA COUNTRY ‘In the 1950s there was British Government and the Australian Government made an agreement to have bomb testing in Australia. Not far from here. I was only a little kid. They were working there, testing the bombs. The first one when they let it go was called Totem 1. We heard it […]…
NGARRINDJERI WOMAN
‘Our Indigenous people of Australia are 3 per cent of the total Australian population. But of that 3 per cent the last statistics reveal that at least 50 per cent is affected by some form of disability. So it’s very bad numbers for our people. You must remember there is no word for disability in […]…
THE FORGOTTEN
‘Roseanne, like many other Indigenous children in remote Central Australia, was born with foetal alcohol-related brain damage. She grew up beyond the effective reach of the state welfare services overlapping her homeland. Her behaviour, the result of years of neglect and abuse, inevitably brought her into contact with the criminal justice system. Found unfit to […]…
THE CARER
‘My name is Tyrone. My mum, well now I call her mum, she used to be my aunty but now she is my mum. I have to call her Mum because my little sister will call her Aunty, so I have to call her Mum. I help her, and I put nappies on Daniella, my […]…
HOPE
‘I get teased a lot. I would like to grow up and help other people, because I don’t want them to go through the same thing I have.’ HOPE CAMPBELL MINYERRI COMMUNITY NT & NORTH WEST TASMANIA ‘Hope was diagnosed with Otitis Media, which has impacted her hearing and learning abilities. We all need to […]…
VISIONARY MAN
‘I was diagnosed by Fred Hollows and he told me that I had a form of macular degeneration, which meant that my eyesight would gradually be lost. It almost tore the family apart. I realised I had an obligation and a responsibility to my family and I decided it was up to me. When I […]…
THE LIFE SAVER
‘I was raised to think and act white, which has been a hard thing to come up against and change in my life. I am a black man, I’m an Indigenous Australian, and I am an Aboriginal, I am a native. I think with my head and my heart simultaneously, as we all do. We […]…
JAPANANGKA
‘Just because we are black they look at us as one, and we don’t see it. We got our own areas to abide by the lores. With us we have been trained to speak the English; they can’t talk our languages, Warlpiri or any other languages that are there. We can speak fluently – they […]…
TBA (to be advised)
‘My son walked out the front of this property and the police saw him cross the road. One of the eyewitnesses made the comment in the police report that the vehicle, when they spotted young Rex, swerved and made a beeline for him to run him over. After they run him over, from eyewitness accounts […]…