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Two women with arms around each other standing in front of a pack of horses drinking at a waterhole.

Head shot of a woman with long, brown hair standing in front of a protest with Indigenous flags on a truck.

Woman wearing bullet-proof vest standing in ruins of a building.

"I think we were no longer OK with having non-Indigenous people speak for us."

ABC Indigenous Affairs Correspondent Bridget Brennan reporting on the Uluru convention in 2017.

"I think it's the hardest job in the ABC."

"We have the best friendship now as a result."

"I think that was in a large part due to the work that we did, but sometimes it can take years to see the impact."

"I have an understanding from my own family of Torres Strait Islander culture, but that doesn't mean I can go into Wurundjeri country and know anything about how they operate, but you're welcomed in and you learn."

Two women sitting with one holding a baby.

"It just fills my heart with joy and hope for the future because if that's how much change can be made in six years, imagine where we're going to be in 10 years."

"And so no matter the toll, we will keep on going."

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