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THREE WAYS MISSION IN A MODEL T CAR IN Griffith 1963

Weragi people

Gummeroy woman

Father was a transient Saw Miller

No real expectation that life was ever going to get any better for me - a hand-to-mouth existence.

a great SENSE OF BELONGING

"broken glass and mangy dogs"

Dad would do whatever he could do, to get by and put a meal on the table.

I didn't have a road map to improve my lot.

After Stan's family moved to Canberra as a teenager, John Bevan, father of Michael Bevan, former Australian Test Cricketer was one of Stan's high-school teachers.

"Listen, I am on to you.  Every other kid in this class, their life is set.  Life will largely fall into place for them.

For you, I know your background. Life will be what you bring to it.  You have to make it happen for you.

I know what you are doing, you are pretending because you just want to be one of the group.  You have to make it happen.  You are going to have to bring something to it.

I don't think that I even looked at my HSC results

Marcia Langton, AM (born 1951, Brisbane) is one of Australia's leading Aboriginal scholars was then a researcher in aboriginal studies, looked up Stan's HSC results and got him enrolled at Uni of NSW in Journalism.

Stan pays an enormous indebtedness to both his former high school teacher, Mr Bevan and to Marcia Langton for mentoring him, without which, Stan would have not enjoyed the success that he has.