AustLit

Author's note [from Sister Girl]: When I was young I had dreams of being something that was potentially of goodness and of course helpful to my people. The ballerina and newspaper boy didn't turn out so I had to dream other things. One most important factor was to gain an education in order to get what I wanted. However, the straight-through road is not possible for most Aboriginal children. Teachers in my time had low expectations of how much Indigenous children could achieve through the western education system. I was a victim of this. What gave me more determination was the people who said we couldn't do it or you couldn't possibly... (This was written in 1992) (p. 49).