They were stargazers. At night, Deborah Mailman and her rodeo rider dad, Wally, would lie on the trampoline in their front yard in the Queensland mining town of Mount Isa, seeing what they could spot. Once, when she was about 12, a mysterious light appeared in the cloudy sky.star says at her family home near Wollongong, NSW, where she has lived for almost 15 years. The 49-year-old leans forward and pushes her hands away, palms facing out: “I swear me and Dad saw a UFO one night.
“I think too much about what people think. … It’s a pattern for me in the early stages, when I’m preparing for a role. I get highly nervous, highly anxious, really stressed.” She wishes she had Alex’s steeliness: “I think too much about what people think. I’m always overthinking things.” His rodeo skills took him mustering “up through the guts” of the state, and to New Zealand as part of a group demonstration show. There, at a bush ball, he met Jane Pahau, a Ngāti Porou woman, whom he married in 1965. Wally brought his Maori wife back to the Queensland town of Augathella, “in the middle of bloody nowhere”, says Deborah, who was born in 1972.
for child – and later did community work back on country. “If Dad had decided to stay in Augathella, I’d be telling you a different story, because all the Mailmans were there, and I would have a stronger sense of what it meant to be Bidjara. In Mount Isa, away from family, we lost that connection and what that meant.
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