Gayangwa Lalara
‘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 […]…
Gary Umbagai
‘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 […]…
Eve Kitchener
‘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 […]…
Carol Carter
‘When the Elders in Bankstown were made aware that the BasicsCard was coming there, we wanted to know if there was going to be any consultation, and if they were enforcing it without people’s knowledge. We don’t agree with it because you can’t take people’s rights away, this is our rights and our self worth, […]…
Quaden Georgetown Jnr
‘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 […]…
Roy Mundine
‘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. […]…
Yami Lester
‘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 here, loud and […]…
Gayle Rankine
‘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 […]…
Full Length Documentary
First Peoples Disability Network
