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The Olympic gold medallist and former Labor senator discusses politics, intergenerational trauma and the statue she hopes will inspire Indigenous children with mrbenjaminlaw. | DICEY TOPICS

Each week, Benjamin Law asks public figures to discuss the subjects we’re told to keep private by getting them to roll a die. The numbers they land on are the topics they’re given. This week, he talks to Nova Peris. The Gija, Yawuru and Iwatja woman, 50, was the first Aboriginal Australian to win an Olympic gold medal. The former Labor senator was also the first Indigenous female to sit in Federal Parliament.

Families talk about how the trauma of the Stolen Generations is passed down through later generations. Has that been your family’s experience? In July, a 2.2-metre bronze statue of you was unveiled in Melbourne’s Federation Square. It will eventually move to Darwin, where you grew up in a housing commission home. How does the statue make you reflect on how you want to be remembered?

 

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