Storytellers

Gloria Turner grew up in Cosmo, a Christian community out from Warburton, where she did her primary schooling. She raised her first daughter in Warburton and is now a great-grandmother. Dialysis brought her first to Perth, then to Kalgoorlie on Wongatha Country, where she lives near her daughter and sisters, who look after each other as family. Gloria was the first person ever to sleep on a Goods bed. Her hope is to make better mattresses.

Arrernte and Alyawarre. Arrernte on her father's side, Alyawarre on her mother's side. The youngest of six siblings. Mother of six children and grandmother to sixteen. Her father was an Alice Springs wood merchant who fought for Aboriginal rights across Central Australia and helped set up the Aboriginal Legal Service and the Aboriginal Health Service. Karen worked at Legal Aid and at Congress before looking after her grandchildren. She encouraged her daughters to leave their jobs and start their own business, which is how Oonchiumpa began.