Lester Bostock
‘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 […]…
Lesley Flanders
‘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 […]…
Kevin Coombs
‘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. […]…
Kay Sadler
‘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. […]…
June Oscar AO
‘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 […]…
Josh Lennox
‘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.’…
John Baxter
‘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, […]…
Jo Agius
‘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 […]…
Jandamarra O’Shane
‘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 […]…
Jake Briggs
‘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 […]…