 I'm a proud Jerringer and Wanda Wandaean woman. I feel like I've always been a storyteller. I've always been creative and wanted to write. I feel like I come from a really long line of storytellers. I think that comes from that exchange from generation to generation. So growing up, you know, home to me is down on the South Coast, Jerringer, and you know, that's the community I came from, but I also grew up on dark and young country on the Central Coast. I feel like academic spaces, historically have never been built for Aboriginal people. They've been built in a way to keep us out, if anything. I think it's a testament to the University of Newcastle because during my degree, I felt safe and I felt supported in the four years that I was there and, you know, Wallatukah, which is the indigenous space, was a real safe haven for me. At the moment, I am a senior presenter slash journalist for NITV. I think my job is to elevate other voices and tell their stories and kind of give a platform to people on the ground. I think it's so important for our stories to be told that celebrate the achievements of mob, but also that shines a light to expose some of the injustices that many of us have been facing for decades and decades. And showing that we have a space in telling our own stories because historically, we haven't been the ones to tell them. I'm Shani Wellington and this is my story.