Here’s her view of Australia Day:

“I am proud to be be an Aboriginal Australian, but that does not mean that I celebrate the day that honours the arrival of the first fleet of English ships at Port Jackson in 1788.

“This meant the first infrastructure for further colonisation. It also meant the end of a way of life for the inhabitants of a land that James Cook declared in 1770 as "Terra Nullius", a Latin expression meaning "nobody land" (and which is a term sometimes used in international law to describe territory that may be acquired by a states occupation of it).

Aboriginal people then were taken on a journey of murder, rape, cultural genocide, slavery, racism, victimisation, stolen generations, assimilation, White Australia policy. Only after the 1967 referendum, were Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders given citizenship - prior to that we were under the National Park and Wildlife Act.

Disadvantage, sub-standard housing, poor health,infant mortality, incarceration rates which are one of the worst in the the world, homelessness, unemployment, education, inter-generational trauma - the list goes on.

Australian Aboriginal people have had to fight for social change all through 230 years of colonisation.

I look at all the billions of dollars that are mined everyday on Aboriginal land and we are still one of the most neglected, sorriest race on this planet.   

With all this negative failure for Aboriginal Australians, I can not celebrate.  

There should be a change of date so all Australians are included and feel welcome.  We are a big country and there should be no homelessness, poverty or racism for any Australians.

So how will I spend the day?

With my family and think of all the positives the future has for them.”