My community loved dad until he retired from football and needed a job | Sorrell Ashby for IndigenousX

The role colonisation has played in the exclusion of Aboriginal people shows why we need economic reformMy dad and his family grew up in a tin humpy on the banks of the Namoi River in Walgett, New South Wales. My grandmother worked on a station, raising the station manager's children, and never received her pay during her lifetime.Growing up my father was denied an education and instead given a football; he left school at 15 and later in life was drafted with five other Aboriginal men to play rugby league for the Gundagai Tigers. That year Gundagai saw their first grand final win. Gundagai loved Dad until he retired from football and needed a job.  Continue reading...