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My career in health very much started at a grassroots level, with some strong Eldership and mentorship from the community and my mum.

— Roianne West

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My commitment to increasing Indigenous people coming through nursing is me paying it forward because had that not happened, God knows where I would be.

We really need to start looking at dealing with racism within nursing and midwifery and within the care that we deliver.

Nursing was not only an opportunity for a better life, it was a lifeline.

I’ve been very deliberate about that in my career; identifying what skills and qualifications I needed in order to be listened to and be able to have more impact for my people.

When you get cultural safety right, it actually works as a very good retention strategy for Indigenous students in health programs because it validates the reasons why they actually come into a program.

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