When I was growing up in Kowanyama there were 15 people in my class. I am the only one who has gone to university. I’m also the only girl in my class who did not have a child at 15. Of the boys in my class, seven have been incarcerated,_two for murder, five for robbery and rape. Only three of us are not alcoholics. Four of my classmates have committed suicide.

　　Life as a young aborigine is not easy, in any setting. The story of my fellow students is a lesson in the magnitude of the problems that young indigenous people in Cape York face.

　　The two issues that are central to changing this story are education and health. There is a huge gap between what we get in communities and what other kids get in cities.

　　One of the problems facing education in remote indigenous schools is that teachers tend to be just out of training and stay for only a year or two. Not one teacher stayed for the whole of my nine years at school — not even the principals. This seeming lack of commitment makes you feel they don’t care.

　　We need to review the curriculum in these communities because it is pitched at a very low level. I have had to draw the conclusion that governments and educationalists see us as less than white people.

　　Education should be uplifting, not serve to reinforce lack of self­esteem and the heart­wrenching low expectations that our race suffer from.

　　We need a massive reassessment of education policies and an equally massive investment in education. We have spent so long listening to some white fellows telling us we are stupid, lazy no­hopers that the majority of my people actually believe it.

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