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Theme
Healing And Trauma
How Palm Island Community Company storytellers name healing and trauma 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 help First Nations women involved, no, at risk or involved in the criminal justice system”
Describing the primary target population for the Women's Healing Service
“We basically tailor, we sit with the woman, we find out about their journey and we tailor our delivery of service to whatever that is and wherever they are on their journey. So every individual one is different.”
Explaining the personalized methodology of service delivery
“What we really need now is to know what the other PICC services provide so that when she knows the other families and young ones she knows where to refer what services to refer.”
Emphasizing the need for a service directory and referral process within PICC services
“Mum's never known her history”
Describing how her mother, a member of the Stolen Generation, never knew her roots and passed away at 52
“She didn't want us to be lonely like she did”
Explaining her mother's motivation for having ten children
“That's the resilience and the strength and the importance of what we are doing today”
Acknowledging families who traveled from Townsville and distant places to attend the Early Childhood Center opening
“Our children are our future. They are our ancestors of tomorrow”
Central statement at the opening celebration expressing core cultural belief
“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
“They fell in that trap.”
Referring to the opening of the canteen and how it negatively changed their lifestyle
“There's no place like home.”
Expressing her deep connection to Palm Island despite everything
“Our mother was one of the stolen generation”
Ethel introduces her family history and her mother's experience of forced removal
“You can just imagine the hardship that we had to go through”
Ethel reflects on their upbringing as one of 17 siblings with significant household responsibilities
Quote selection: every quote shown above is from an analysis that passed an anti-fabrication grader. Analyses with critical issues are not surfaced here.