I'm all about reconnecting with my bloodlines, my songlines, my massacre sites, my heritage. I'm trying to live free, as best I can.
I had a bypass 11 years ago, so I'm on a pension. I just want a better future for my children, for my immediate family and their children's children.
My ancestors are saying: "Do something, don't just be an emu with your head in the sand".
I've been parked here outside the RECOGNISE meeting, but how many black fellers do you think have said hello to me? Even though they are a part of the reconciliation — none. It's because I'm interested in sovereignty and tribal connections.
With proposed constitutional reforms, once we became secretaries we lose our sovereign rights. We become Australian citizens. We'll be just the first people to come here by boat. We won't have land rights anymore.
For the first time only this year, I drove all the way from Maclean, which is my grandmother's country, all the way to Bellingen, with this flag on my car and I don't know if it is respect, but it was good to see that I had safety all around me.
No-one followed me too close behind, no tailgating near me.
I want all of us to be free to move about without the arrogance of telling people where to go. This is beyond saying "I'm here first, I'm here second, I'm here seventh generation". This government is allowing the country to be totally destroyed.
My brother was killed in Vietnam. He did the right thing by the military and I'm proud of the vets. I can go into any RSL and share in that respect for my brother's bravery, but to walk outside of that and became part of society ... well, it's become a dog-eat-dog world.
I'm so proud of my people. We have a spiritual connection to the land beyond the wants of it, but we are being enticed like the American Indians to have what the whites want us to have.
