- What was your reaction
when you found out you were going to be a parent?
- Honestly? My first initial thought was "terminate".
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- I am Raquel I'm a Wurundjen woman
and this is my dad, Rick.
- Hello, I'm Rick.
- Hello, my name is Corey and this is my dad, Shane.
- Okay. Do you ever think about the difference
in our experience as Indigenous people?
- There are varying levels of experience
from the way that you grew up
compared to the way that I've grown up.
My experience growing up was wishing that I was darker
so I wouldn't have to justify my existence or my identity.
- I was the opposite because I was frowned upon
for having a different colored skin to the normal.
When I got older, it was just sad thought that I thought.
- I remember in grade one, we had to do this thing
where we like talk some information
about ourself and goes up to the board.
And I put on mine that I was Aboriginal
because I kind of thought I was
and my nanny came into class and she literally pointed
out to me saying you're not Aboriginal,
you know you should be, own that.
For a while, I felt like there was half of me
that I didn't fully have a quite a grip of understanding.
- Describe the night I was conceived.
- Definitely.
- I don't even know if I could remember that night.
I'd say back then, it's probably drug fueled,
frigging, something like that.
- It's why I so much trouble concentrating now.
- Sorry.
- Nah, I don't care.
- What was your reaction when you found out
you were going to be a parent?
- It was like, I'm 19.
- What have I just done?
- Oops.
- It may be oops.
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- But look, look what I've ended up with,
so it was worth it.
- Honestly, I was a teenager, pretty much.
I hadn't known her very long,
like four weeks. I already ended it.
And then I found out after the fact.
I maned up and did the right thing, I think.
I was nowhere near ready to be raising another human being,
that's for sure.
- Yeah.
- I was far from happy to say, that's say the least.
- Yeah.
- Like yeah. Would seem to have been a shock.
- My first initial thought was terminate.
- What's your best pick line?
(laughs)
- Give me your best pick line.
- I wouldn't mind kidnapping you tonight.
So that's what I used on your mom, and know what she said?
Maybe.
And she came over.
And 27 years later, we still, it worked.
- What is something you think I should change
that would make my life better?
(laughs)
- I don't have to say that at all.
- [Interviewer] Do you think you know what it is or-
- No.
- [Interviewer] No idea.
- I'll let it slide.
- What is something you think I should change
that would make my life better?
- Do you want me to be honest? Be brutally honest?
- Yeah, come on, yeah.
- Try and just stick with one woman and
be happy and content with that.
- I've just, I've had a history of being a bit, you know-
- Slutty.
No, I'm getting better with my age, I like to think.
- We live in hope.
(laughs)
- Are you proud of the woman I've become?
- Just.
I have no words.
- Thanks dad.
- Given the chance,
how would you have raised me differently?
- Given the chance?
Yes, absolutely.
I should have played a more active role in your life
when you were a child.
It was a bit too easy for me to, jerk it off, you know?
If I could I would step up to the plate and be there 100%.
- Yeah. I'm not totally upset by the end results.
So, you know, I think you did is fine.
- I love you very much, my boy.
- Love you too.
- All right, what's the misconception
of indigenous people of Australia?
- There's a lot of misconceptions that we are lazy,
that we rely on handouts,
addiction to drugs, addiction to alcohol.
- [Interviewer] When saying yes to partake
in a drinking game. How did that sit with you?
- I wasn't entirely sure whether to partake.
- Yeah, we're not all alcoholics.
We're no different to anybody else that bleeds red.
It's just the stereotism of "this is what folks are."
And it's like, no, meet one, greet one,
and then talk to one and you'll know.
- On the Turps Truth or Drink Aussie addition.
What's the worst excuse you've ever used to
chuck a sticky?
- No comment.
- Here you go.
(laughs)
- This would be a good game to have in my cupboard.
- When I come to Melbourne.
- I love that they've used "chuck a sticky".
- Did you actually know that Truth or Drink
has an Australian version?
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