Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs - Perth, WA (part 2 of 2)
13 July 2026
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Joint Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs Australian Parliament
00:00 - 02:01
Speaker 15
Through the system, through the mental health system, commonwealth system, whatever you wanna name it, it's all affecting in our community through the mining boom. And that's why I'm here and taking this opportunity to speak as a leader because my father is this born spiritual gifted leader. He wanted what's best for the community, that provide for his people. But they incarcerated him. He's in jail for sixteen years.
He's still incarcerated. He's living under the NDIS system mental health. I've got most of my family all in Croft and Robyn under the mental health system, under the incarceration, under the system, and the other side of the parties are not suffering it because they're the ones who's taking everything from the family and what we want was right in the community for our people because you've got the ones who sit behind the corporations, the black applicants, and they're the ones who... And the generational system through the government. There's a generational trauma system that we all traumatize.
It affects us mentally. I only just took a stroke last year, slight stroke, through all the pressure from all the escape. I needed escape from domestic violence. Cops never been reaching out to me, always reach out to the father of my kids because his sister was a steering committee and... Which is my first cousin.
He's my first cousin, but they was in the family. And we was all in the family, but they took over my family and my family. Because there was a corp... There was... We did...
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