The other thing about that is that they weren't able to have a balanced diet because, taken away from their traditional lands, they had to eat the food what was available to them on those missions and reserves, but also on cattle stations.

I think with the health care that came along, well, we started to not be able to do our cultural huntings or cultural gatherings. Therefore, we had to stay in the one place because a lot of curfews were put on Aboriginal people and restrictions of movement. We had to live on those communities and live off those rations that were available to us.

But over time, Aboriginal people started to become reliant on the rations because they weren't able to hunt and gather their traditional foods. So, that sort of impacted on people getting high blood pressure, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases. Also, the introduction of measles, smallpox coming in from those people who came to Australia from other lands.