
If you had told Kelvin Kong he would be Australia's first Indigenous Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon and receiving an AM at this year's Australia Day celebrations when he was in school, he would've laughed in your face.
"If you had told me when I was at high school or helping mum back in the early days that I'd be a surgeon doing these things - I'd laugh - there's no way, it's not possible, not physically feasible," he said.