Working at the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs

Chicka Dixon, working at the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs, remembers: ‘What we needed was a place we could go socially and we picked the area in George St purposely. I had a big sign put up at Central railway, ‘Aboriginals, visit your Foundation’. If they need a little bit of help – they’re coming in fly blown – we give out food orders, a chit to get a three-course meal next door. Fellas coming out of jail. We had a hell of a lot of donations of clothes and that. People’d come and get a bit of beer. If you’re talking about a typical day there’s no such thing. A lot of problems. Social problems. (V18, Gordon Briscoe’s Redfern – the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs’)