Prior to colonization, Aboriginal people had a very, very healthy lifestyle. Because of the seasonal availability of foods we were able to look at our diet, maintain the foods that we eat but we also were able to have a balanced diet, rather than just one meal at a time. When I say that, it's looking at what's available now, and we don't have the foods that we were able to get.

But I think we've gotta have a look at the restrictions of people's hunting rights.

We also have to have a look at the government's development of communities which took away Aboriginals from their traditional lands but also with Torres Strait Islanders taken away from their traditional lands.

But it also restricted people from their hunting and gathering abilities and obligations.

Then, the introduction of rations that have played a heavy toll on Aboriginal health because we, what our people got in their ration pack was a lot of tea, sugar, tobacco, and lard that they used to survive on.