My name is Edmund Kenneth O'Loughlin. 
I was born at Point Pearce 1938.
I belong to the Narrunga and Kaurna people.
The government pulling out of Point Pearce and handing it back to its people, 
the government sold up, it actually raped, I think, Point Pearce.
It took the machinery; sold it off, sold off the livestock and left the
Lands Trust to manage the farms and thereby denying fathers of employment
and the roles then changed. Whereas the father was the breadwinner,
the women then became more vocal and the men lost their credibility
as male heads of families. It destroyed the family unit, respect for each other,
the traditional ways of respecting each other, respecting Elders,
respecting children - that was all destroyed.
The loss of employment then led to the social benefits of pensions, unemployment,
the dole and this desire to seek employment, it was easier to register to collect
the unemployment and so they are again losing face.
And that now leads us to where are with trying
to maintain our kids in the educational system.
The attendance and the retention of our kids to senior levels of high school.
Our kids are quite bright, quite brainy, I think they are quite remarkable kids
when you consider where they come from during the morning when they come into school
and what those kids go through in that night before.
And they come in and they put a full day's work in,
in that education but what are the opportunities for them after that?
We try to encourage the kids to continue with education.
But the prevailing thought with most of these young people,
where they have the ability to succeed, there is no future -
who's going to employ us? So what we have here then,
is still this foreboding of racism.