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2025 SA Senior Australian of the Year Charles Jackson OAM
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1/20/2025
Meet Your Australians - 2025 SA Senior Australian of the Year Charles Jackson OAM. ACM is proud to be media partner for the 2025 Australian of the Year Awards.
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I'm a very traditional individual from the Flinders Ranges, I'm from the Adjamantha
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Cultural Group and I speak my language very well.
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My mum, she gave birth to 14 children and not one of us were actually born in a hospital,
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including myself, we were all born in a creek bed.
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I think she, when she gave birth to me, that she already had a vision for me.
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Well I've worked in Indigenous Affairs now for well over 50 years and in my role I've
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always advocated for the most vulnerable in our society.
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I am engaged with the people at the grassroots level and in particular, especially the elderly
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people in our communities and to be able to listen and to be able to, you know, take their
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concerns to the next level and especially dealing with local government, state government
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and also on a federal level as well.
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I want recognition for the First Nations people in Australia, the oldest living culture in
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the world of 60,000 years and to be able to work with both parties, to be able to develop
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a bipartisan agreement whereby that they come up with a model that is acceptable, whereby
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that they can actually present it to the broader community in Australia.
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I think, you know, within our community, I'm talking about the First Nations people, is
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that, you know, there's an enormous amount of intergenerational trauma and that's caused
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as a result of a number of other factors and these are some of the things that I'd like
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to talk to government, whether it's state or federal, and to see how we can deal with
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those trauma that's having an enormous amount of impact on our younger generation.
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And I've got a very good understanding about actually identifying what are the key subject
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in terms of the policies and if I can share some of those knowledge with everybody, and
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I think that I'll be very, very proud to know that I've been able to reach out to not only
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the young people but also to the elderly as well.
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