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An Aboriginal man smiling holding three moulds with soap mixture inside them.

"I got to travel around quite a lot, [and] a lot of that time was [spent] fishing, camping and learning [about] what people used to eat or use as medicine before colonisation,"
Mr Doyle said.
A metal strainer containing native grass steaming

A close-up shot of a plant with narrow green leaves.

"I started giving it away to family and friends, and of course, they started giving it away [and] people started asking for it,"
he said.

Hands playing with bits of soap

Several lines of soap bars sitting on a table.

An Aboriginal man in a white top and cap pointing to some hand prints on a rock wall.

"On my guided tours now I'm trying to give the scientific name, then the common name, [and] then try and add the Aboriginal traditional language name."

An Aboriginal man holding a stick talking to a group of people on a pile of rocks.

A man wearing a suit speaking in front of a banner

An Aboriginal man wearing protective gloves holding a hot container with heated grass in it.

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