 My mum has always encouraged me to pursue education and I think that is because of the opportunities that she didn't have, my grandmother didn't have and certainly my great-grandfather didn't have. Master of Public Policy, Hannah Claire Dawson. My great-grandfather, Jimmy Barker, he grew up on a mission in Bawaruna, New South Wales in the early 1900s and his first day of school was as a 12-year-old boy and on his very first day of school he was told that he was absolutely worth nothing and that Australian blacks were the lowest type of humanity living today and despite these remarks from the missions manager and teacher he taught himself how to read within two months of his first day of school by finding old newspapers and reading the back of jam tins on the mission. Practicing on a chalkboard, the alphabet and so the legacy of my great-grandfather has certainly informed my path through tertiary education especially that education is a real privilege and it's not to be taken for granted.