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Humans of the Wheatbelt Edited by Dr Harry Randhawa & Anna Cornish Copyright © Wheatbelt Health Network 2020 humans of the wheatbelt edited by Dr Harry Randhawa & Anna Cornish Copyright © Wheatbelt Health Network 2020 All rights reserved. Except under the conditions described in the Australian Copyright Act 1968 and its subsequent amendments, no part of the publication may be reproduced without the prior written permission of the copyright holder. ISBN: 978-0-648-87520-8 (Softcover edition) ISBN: 978-0-648-87521-5 (PDF edition) A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia Printed by Scott Print 4 Aberdeen St, Perth WA 6000 First edition printing 2020 Wheatbelt Health Network 25 Holtfreter Avenue, Northam www.wheatbelt.com.au #wheatbelthealthnetwork Find us: All stories: @humansofthewheatbelt Book designed by the Book Shed I am delighted to present this Humans of the Wheatbelt book Introwhich celebrates diversity. In each of the interviews, drawn from residents across the Wheatbelt region of WA, either the interviewer, the interviewee, or the person who has taken the picture or the person who has written up the interview, has a disability. The project was funded by the Department of Communities - Disability Services and is part of the Disability Inclusion in Schools and Communities (DISCO) Project. Over the year there were 121 fantastic interviews of which we have chosen 53 to share with you. One of the themes running through this project was to explore how we all can contribute to making our community a more inclusive one. This theme extends beyond people with a disability and recognises that people of different colours, sizes, shapes, cultures and abilities all play a role in their communities and this ought to be celebrated. We hope you enjoy their stories as much as we did. Dr Harry Randhawa CEO, Wheatbelt Health Network 3 dropped off in town after six and I retired two years ago. Now if be thrown in jail. Aboriginal people somebody wants something done weren’t even allowed to go into a café they ring me. I will fight tooth and to buy food or have a meal. nail for my people because I want my kids, my grandkids and great- It happened to me and still today I have been here in Northam for 54 grandkids to have a better life. can’t get over it. Where I grew up, we years and grew up in Shackelton. were the only Aboriginal people in Northam has changed for the better MyI great grandfather was actually the town and everyone treated us the - I can even walk into a shop where Sikh. He brought camels over to the same but when we came to Northam no one looks at me twice. Northam is deserts up near the Kimberley and I got a job working for this lady. I was just magic. I go back to Shackleton - there met my great-grandma. 15. She took me to a local café - we it’s my connection to country. If I am I have twenty-six grandies and lots of ordered lunch and sat down. It wasn’t feeling crook I will just get in my car grandkids. Two of my grandsons are until we got our meals that we saw and go here and sit on a rock. There is playing in the AFL for Greater Western hers served on china and mine on nothing physical there but the spirit of Sydney and Richmond. My mum and a plastic. We both just got up and my grandma. dad had a family of eighteen with nine walked out, she cried all the way The best moment of my life was boys and nine girls. I was the fifth home. That was my first episode with having my children. Life is good... life youngest. I lost four brothers in four racism. She had to explain it to me. is brilliant. I act as an advocate for year, prostate cancer, Alzheimer’s, At 17 I was offered the training to domestic violence and racism. We and a car accident. Sometimes I need become a nurse. I was in Perth need to talk about it. to take a step back and look at the for two years. I came home one outer circle and so do the younger My advice is to think positive, there weekend, met this boy, and fell in generation. are obstacles that you will confront love. I went back to nursing in 2005. everyday in life, jump over them, and My dad was born here in 1912. I had five children, two boys, and on the other side of that is a life you His parents come down for a big three girls. They are the most beautiful will cherish forever. Don’t look back, corroboree and grandma was ready children in the world. don’t dwell on the past. Remember to give birth. They weren’t allowed to Because of the damage to my eye that you are who you are because of have babies in the hospitals in those through domestic violence, I got to what you want in life. days so she gave birth on the side the stage that I couldn’t read the of the Mortlock River. I go and sit medical charts anymore. I had to Human – Kathy Davis there all the time. My dad was one resign. I missed nursing until the Interviewer & Photographer – of twelve children. My grandma died grandies came along. Anna Cornish in Brookton, she was escaping from men taking children of the stolen I was at Charlie Gardners and an old generation and the horse bolted and lady from a remote community had she fell off - she was only 56. arrived by Flying Doctor and couldn’t speak English – she was crying at all In the 1950s - Aboriginal people the white faces. When she saw me - weren’t allowed in the streets after her face lit up! I couldn’t understand six o’clock. They were arrested and her but she died peacefully seeing an thrown in jail if they were out. That Aboriginal face. didn’t work well for those working on farms because they would get 4 5 Kathy We got a phone call and the gold medalist pulled out and the silver As he has gotten older there have medalist wasn’t good enough so been adults who have picked on him we got to go to the world junior - it is amazing how some people can championships in Bangkok, he said. act. or 18-year-old Matthew Fernihough, a sport he took up in the It was like a miracle to us. It has been really good seeing him faceF of bullying has seen him grow grow. into a martial arts champion. It was a massive event and had over 800 entries. I am so proud of all he has had to go The Northam teenager took up Muay through - I don’t think I could do what Thai only a few years ago as a way of It most definitely gave me a taste of he has done. building confidence, which has now competing at that level - it was a great evolved into a devoted passion - a experience. Matthew said although his passion which has already seen him experiences as a child played a part in represent his country. It’s a good career to be in and it’s the decision for him to start learning somewhere I want to be. martial arts, he does not resort to At around 12 or 13 I started doing violence outside of the ring. some martial arts with a trainer, Matthew has autism, although he Matthew said. doesn’t let his disability define who I got a little bit bullied at a younger he is. age which also encouraged my Over time I got more and more parents to put me into martial arts, he interested. His dad Michael is his biggest fan and said. says a lot of bullying was focused Muay Thai was the one that suited me around his disability. The sport is all about control. best. With his autism, he couldn’t see it A lot of people see it as being I wanted to learn an advanced skills, but we could - there was bullying in physical. have fun while doing it and meet new the classroom and the community, people. Michael said. You get stronger but a lot of it is about mental control. The amount of respect in the sport is As parents, it has been a hard journey also a massive part of it which I enjoy for us. I used to be a crazy little kid but over a lot. time my mentality has changed. For Matthew, it is all fine. The teenager has previously Matthew is now passing on his Muay competed in a Queensland national For my wife and me - we had to see Thai skills to other people in the tournament and walked away with him come home from school crying Wheatbelt area. bronze, narrowly missing out on because he didn’t have any friends at competing at the international level. school. Human - Matthew Fernihough Interviewer – Anna Cornish But it wasn’t the end for Matthew. We thought we would give him a little Photographer – William Luu bit of experience with self defence. 6 Denise Matthew 7 leaders series find time to walk our dog though! My parents were a big influence on I wouldn’t call myself an avid me in my personal life, of course. gardener, but I do enjoy pottering I know it’s a cliché, but the best thing around. I also enjoy reading, movies, about working in medicine is the that kind of stuff.
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