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Gender: Female
Heritage: Torres Strait Islander
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Co-artistic Director of Port Youth Theatre Workshop (2002), 'Diat Alferink ... grew up in the remote outback town of Lyndhurst...[Her] mother, Daisy, was born on Badu Island in the Torres Strait, an island woman who ended up living in the middle of the desert. Diat's father is a talc stone sculptor and philosopher, known universally as 'Talc Alf'. Her extraordinary childhood was full of laughter and adventure.' (Vitalstatistix 2005 programme).

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