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'Enoch talks about his family background, particularly his father's connections with Stradbroke Island; the family's move to Brisbane in the early 1970s; education at Woodridge High School; studies in Drama at Queensland University of Technology; brief period of training in the United States; honours' thesis on contemporary Aboriginal arts; the Kooemba Jdarra Indigenous Performing Arts Company, of which he was artistic director, 1994-1997; progress and set-backs in Aboriginal affairs; influences of parents; childhood memories; the importance of stories and place; "Aunty Kath Walker" as a role model; origins of his involvement in Murri theatre; 'The Seven stages of grieving'; Kevin Gilbert; interest in writing as well as directing; rejection of concept of Australia as one nation; preference for identity based on concept of one land and Murri perspective of living with the land; reconciliation; the impact of governmental change on the proposal for a National Institute of Indigenous Performing Arts; and predictions about his personal situation seven years' hence.' (Interview summary)