Gary Taylor, I come from Kellerberrin in Western Australia and my people are the Nyoongar people.
I thought that I could probably get away with my skin colour 
because I can actually pass at times as a Wadjella person;
one because my skin colour
the other thing is that I have hazel eyes.
The other thing is that I had blonde hair in the past - 
now gone grey. When I open my mouth and I begin to speak,
I believe that people can pick that I am a Nyoongar person 
and I face racism on a daily basis.
Sometimes by just body language of people, by just 
attitudes of people but because I can live 
in two cultures I can actually confront racism whenever
it's addressed, I'm quite comfortable in doing that.
One because I know where I stand as a Nyoongar because
I don't have to prove that I'm a Nyoongar
- I am a Nyoongar. Also, I know my place in education
at the same time so I can actually argue with people.
So therefore in the past when I never had a voice,
I have more than a voice now. So I can quite easily
address racism and I think that with every Nyoongar or 
Aboriginal person throughout the whole of Australia would 
have faced racism in some shape or form. And I think that 
how you address it is the way that you go through many, 
many issues of life and it sort of grows on you.
But if we keep on looking back at racism I think that
if we don't know how to handle it I don't think that we 
would be able to move on. We can confront, we can face it 
and then we can move on with our lives.