Tyrone
‘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 Campbell
‘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.’…
Steve Widders
‘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 […]…
Rhys Nagas
‘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 […]…
Rex Japanangka Granites
‘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 […]…
Rex Bellotti Jnr
‘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 […]…
Mavis Wayne
‘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 […]…
Marlon Noble
‘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 ‘He was charged with the sexual abuse and assault of two girls. And because he […]…
Maree Kalkeeyorta
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 […]…
Lupreen Clarke
‘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, […]…