Sealin Garlett, I'm a Nyoongar man and I'm born in a little 
place in Western Australia - a little place called Bruce Rock.
The impact of colonisation upon my people, a lot of things that I see 
is very strong for me about that, is that one of the 
attributes that our Indigenous people across our land have is
a sense of being able to listen, is a sense of wanting to be able to, 
within our culture and within our spirit, to share with what 
we have. It seems that not only the physical bodies of our Indigenous people
were raped, but I believe the spirit too, 
the spirit too that belongs to a land older than time, was being 
really, really affected. And one of the things it has not done 
for our Indigenous people - it may have oppressed us, it may 
have held us down but it has never broken our spirit.
Such is the tenacity, such is the sense of belonging,
such is the core of who we are that it will always live.