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Theme
Connection To Country
How Palm Island Community Company storytellers name connection to country in their own words. Every storyteller below carries the theme; every quote is verbatim and only surfaces from analyses that passed an anti-fabrication grader.
Voices carrying this theme
In their own words
“We grew up to listen and taught how to be respected”
Discussing core values instilled through upbringing
“I pay my respect to the Durr people here in the country for having us here”
Acknowledging traditional owners and showing cultural protocol
“She said, I should have listened to my mother at that time.”
Marjorie recalls her mother's regret about not learning her language when she had the chance
“This is his country that I'm walking on.”
Marjorie speaks of walking on her grandfather Alf Palmer's country
“When I say WA, I am also WA because Palm is Erman”
Winnie explains the blend of identities that define her community, highlighting how Palm Island connects to Western Australian heritage
“That's why I am glad I came this way here to you”
Winnie shares emotionally about the significance of place and heritage in her life
“Palm Island is a beautiful home and it's home of the Boman people.”
Irene expressing her deep connection to Palm Island and identification with the Boman people as her ancestral home
“My dad's, he born in bred Palm Island,”
Irene sharing her father's birthplace on Palm Island, establishing generational presence
“I came back to Palm a few years ago due to my grandmother being a bit crook and stayed”
explaining his return to Palm Island to care for his grandmother
“We've come a long way since then”
reflecting on PICC's transformation since 2011-2012
“They didn't ask for that. You know, the white man took advantage of our, our parents, you know, like use them. Then they don't claim the child, and I still feel that pain that I have. It'll never go away till the day I die.”
Speaking about her mother's experience with a man who fathered children but didn't claim them
“We born and bred and we stay and we could die. We die here. You know what I mean?”
Explaining why elders must be consulted over outside workers
Quote selection: every quote shown above is from an analysis that passed an anti-fabrication grader. Analyses with critical issues are not surfaced here.