I talk about our elders - our elders are in their 40s. Yet we survive. In the 1960s, the government tried to collect all the information they could about us before we all died off. They thought we were going to disappear. She unleashed that infectious, silly-them laugh.
Aboriginal culture is fluid and vibrant, mate.
They came from all over, and had to enter through the back door - coppers were standing at the front. Douglas Nicholls, our only aboriginal governor, was here, and Bill Ferguson. No Europeans were allowed in, so they could all speak freely. They demanded citizenship. They demanded equality.