When I graduated from high school more than 25 years ago, I received a phone call. I hadn’t met the caller, but they knew of me. They informed me that, according to their records, I was one of only 50 Indigenous students to successfully complete secondary school in the states of South Australia and the Northern Territory combined.
When I graduated, Indigenous students completing secondary studies was cause for our communities to come together to celebrate. I was invited to an event at Adelaide Festival Centre to mark the achievement alongside my fellow graduates. For many of us, the memory of generations before us who were never afforded the opportunity to attend the later years of schooling remained clear.
