Faith Blandler, 83, was born in 1920, the second youngest of eight children.
At the age of sixteen, Faith left school, completed a dressmaker's apprenticeship and moved to Sydney.
In 1952, Faith married an engineer named Hans Bandler and they raised a daughter named Lilon.
Faith's father worked in the cane fields for fourteen years. When he eventually escaped he married a Scottish-Indian woman. Faith's father died when Faith was only four, and was left to be raised in a large by her mother and aunts and uncles.
During WWII, when Faith served in the Australian Woman's Land Army and worked on farms growing food to feed the Australian's fighting overseas, it was then she realized that her people were not being treated equally.
Faith and the other Aboriginal women the same work as the white women but the were getting paid less, so it was the Faith started to fight for Aboriginal rights. Faith helped begin the Aboriginal Australian Fellowship, a group that aimed to gain......
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