How important is it for all Australians to hear stories from Indigenous Australians?
Obviously it’s what my work is about. If these stories aren’t going to be heard, then what’s the point. Indigenous people and other Australians share so much. We have a shared history and we all live here together. If you want to know about Australia then you’ve got to know Aboriginal people. I’m not talking necessarily Aboriginal people who live in the bush, because the vast majority of us live in the cities. We still have a culture, and we still have a way of seeing the world that is distinct form everyone else. So knowing that and enlarging the view of what Aboriginal people look like, how they speak, what their stories are, where they come from and what their history is, can only be a good thing. If you listen to our program over a long period of time you become aware not only of how diverse Aboriginal people are from each other, but also how similar Aboriginal people are to everyone else.
