Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts is a human rights lawyer, Fulbright Scholar, and the ACT's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People Commissioner.
She's also a survivor of the very system she now works to transform.
Having published her memoir Long Yarn Short, Vanessa discusses the provocation that "writing is activism" and consider how stories can build bridges where bureaucracy has built walls.
Plus, for Word Up Ray Dimakarri Dixon shares the Mudburra word for 'tree'.
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ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children and Young People Commissioner Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts.
Books, Indigenous Australians