Kay Sadler
‘The Aboriginal communities, they have this thing, which has been talked about on TV about who’s black and who’s blacker,…
Unfinished Business reveals the stories of 30 people with disability from Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities. Through their involvement in the project each participant draws much-needed attention to critical issues that impact on their lives. Each participant’s story is complex and intertwined with Australia’s political and social history, which has resulted in today’s high rates of disability in Aboriginal and Torres Strait communities. The documentaries are currently being shown on NITV during their regular program breaks.
‘The Aboriginal communities, they have this thing, which has been talked about on TV about who’s black and who’s blacker,…
‘Roseanne, like many other Indigenous children in remote Central Australia, was born with foetal alcohol-related brain damage. She grew up…
‘My name is Tyrone. My mum, well now I call her mum, she used to be my aunty but now…
‘I get teased a lot. I would like to grow up and help other people, because I don’t want them…
‘I was diagnosed by Fred Hollows and he told me that I had a form of macular degeneration, which meant…
‘I was raised to think and act white, which has been a hard thing to come up against and change…
‘Just because we are black they look at us as one, and we don’t see it. We got our own…
‘My son walked out the front of this property and the police saw him cross the road. One of the…
‘I am from Baryulgil, where the asbestos mine is. Weekends we use to be up in the mines playing in…
‘I came here in the year 2000. When I was really sick. I was in the hospital. I had diabetic…
‘I’m from Geraldton. I went to prison for the rest of my life. Been there for ten years of my…
I’ve got my daughter, who was diagnosed with cerebral palsy since birth and my boy, who is 13 years old…
‘I am Koori inside my blood, inside my body. I am so proud because I am living in town and…
‘I got into filmmaking and video making. I was one of the founders of Metro Screen way back, 30, 40…
‘I have been a foster parent for 28 and a bit years. I am just taking care of my ex-sister-in-law’s…
‘How many Paralympics have I been to? I’ve played in 5. My passport back in 1960 was an honorary English…
‘I am the Grandmother of Hudson. It was not right that our little children were growing up in this environment…
‘My name is Josh Lennox and I love to paint and I like doing Aboriginal painting. Painting makes me feel happy…
‘Being an Aboriginal, I think it gives a great deal of pride and sense of purpose as well. So a…
‘I didn’t want to accept the fact that I was deaf, ‘cause I wanted to be a hearing person so…
‘As I was getting a drink, he just came in and poured petrol over me and lit me up. I…
‘I feel like being an aboriginal with a disability is a tough road on both paths where I’m eternally burning…
‘I live in Warooko on Groote Eylandt, and this is my story to talk about the MJD. From my two…
‘I’m from Mowanjum near Derby, WA, in the far north Kimberley. We have a big problem with alcohol in the…
‘They said they had this place up at Hay, in NSW, it was a Japanese World War II prison, and…
‘When the Elders in Bankstown were made aware that the BasicsCard was coming there, we wanted to know if there…
‘I am the mother of a 2-year-old boy with Achondroplasia, which is the most common form of dwarfism. Not knowing…
‘I went forward to check this place out and when I was moving forward I tripped a mine and it…
‘In the 1950s there was British Government and the Australian Government made an agreement to have bomb testing in Australia…
‘Our Indigenous people of Australia are 3 per cent of the total Australian population. But of that 3 per cent…