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I live in Karratha. I have two jobs. I work at Handy Hands. I  love it. I rake, stack stack shelves, take the rubbish out and feed the fish.

I help customers carry things to their cars. I always give them a smile.

I water plants and keep them tidy. I like to prank people. I’m a bit cheeky. I make people laugh.  I like to have fun.

I also work at Troy’s Tyres. I’m one of the boys. I use the rattle gun. I  take the tyres off. Sometimes we work on cool cars. I like taking the cars up and down.

I love hanging out with the boys. We have a good laugh.

I am also applying to be a traffic warden. I’ve got the paperwork, I’ve got the manual. The job comes with training. It’ll be great if I get this job!

I  love my jobs and the people I work with.

I come from the Kimberley, on a station. When I was 11 years old, we moved to Kunnunurra, and I lived here all my life.

I’m 55. I’m a photographer. I picked it up later on in my life. I sell water bottles, pictures, bags, clothing prints.

At TAFE I’m doing a business course, learning computers and getting to know what I can do with my own business, which is just fantastic. My dream come true would be to open a shop, sell photos and everything I create - bags, shirts, fashionable stuff, and hands on learning from me.

Landscape photography for me is like my walk in the Kimberley. I feel like I’m in another world, like it probably takes me back forty thousand years. It’s like my people calling me, “Record it, record it”, you know. And I believe the best way to preserve our culture, I’m doing it through photography.

Some of these places here, they’re touristy sites, but they don’t see it – the really true story of the Kimberley, which is always side-tracked, I believe. And that sort of thing, I like to show people the real deal you know.

Most of my photos are about water, because in the indigenous life, water is important. It means survival. Molly Springs is a local waterfall. It’s a place where it’s been there for years. It’s always  been there for my people. And when you go in there, it’s like you’re entering a gate to the unknown. And to me, I consider that plain water as spirituality. That’s why in my photos, I just see heaven because God created it.

In my spare time, I do witnessing in church, and I use my pictures to help people in prison, to engage people into a better lifestyle I reckon. From the bible, I put scriptures in my photos. One of the flowers that have a got a scripture on it, that bright morning star in Revelation, it explains when the sun rises, the flowers open up like they’re really saying, “Hello God”.

I had a breakdown and I’ve been heavily medicated, and you know what, photography has taken over my life, just saying. And it’s become a medicine. I want to teach kids photography, especially kids who are struggling. Give them an opportunity. They could step into something that might change their life.

Photography brings excitement every day.  I don’t wanna miss out on that capture of that picture, the sunrise, sunset, yeah it needs to be captured!

I’m Josh Bell.  I’m 24 and I have many different jobs going on all throughout the town of Esperance. I’m kind, caring, compassionate, always onto my jobs, and I bring laughter and happiness to the workplace. I also have autism and Cerebral Palsy.

I started working around 15 and these days I’ve got six part time jobs.

Aurelias is an ice-cream shop and café . It has more than 20 different flavours of ice cream, and on a hot day you see lines of people out the door.  I stack the fridges and sort papers and sometimes serve the customers. I take orders and money and give them change, cash or eftpos depending on what they use. I’ve been there 3 years and you get to know  the regulars, and after a while you know what they want.  I’m friendly and give helpful advice.  Good social skills are essential for a very happy business environment.

At Woolworths I work in the bakery.  I put bakery items that are already cooked into containers and put them on the shelves. There’s a big variety. Sometimes customers ask advice.  I recommend the jam and cream donuts, and cheese and chive scrolls, and the dreamy choc cookies. It’s normally a bit of a crowded place. I like to make peoples day a little bit carefree and happier. When my boss has an off day I always get her a large, iced coffee and she brightens up.

I’ve just got a new job at the  museum village café – one day a week. I work in the kitchen, serve customers and I’m learning how to make milkshakes. I got the job through a job agency. I had to update my resume and then go to the café and introduce myself and talk about my experience and what I like to do.

I also work now and then for the Esperance Shire, delivering posters about upcoming plays and musicals to shops around town. A mate of mine drops me at one end of town and then meets at the other end. Most shops are really easy going and say yes. Sometimes they ask me to put the posters up.

Occasionally, I work as an usher for live shows at the Civic Centre theatre. I help people sign in with the COVID app help, point out where they can get a drink and show them to their seats.

I have a family friend, Devin, who asked for my help, and for the last few years I’ve been working doing the shredding part of his business, Devin’s Handy Office Help.

In Esperance everyone knows everyone, and I’m a popular man cos I pop up in different places at different times.

I have a lot of energy The jobs I’m doing are awesome and they keep me happy and occupied.

I’m Andy Guidera, the owner of Bali Hai Resort and Spa, Cable Beach in Broome.

I moved to Broome in 1996 because of the ideal weather, probably the best weather in Australia and the world. I wasn’t really planning to get into tourism. I was looking to buy a house. Then the opportunity presented itself and I decided to buy a commercial tourism block and develop it slowly over the next 16 years.

Creating the Bali theme at the resort created a bit of a visual difference. Bali was one of my regular holiday destinations. I liked the indoor outdoor design of the architecture. They have courtyards where they spend a lot of their time outdoors. So, I kind of like that lifestyle.  Twenty years down the track, the gardens are beautiful, frangipani trees, palm trees. That’s what people like the most. A lot of people comment that it’s just like Bali, in Western Australia.

The resort is self-contained, four star. Each unit’s very separated and very private with a large courtyard area. I built it in four stages, completed the first two stages with all the accommodation by 2002, and then advanced some funding to create the Bali Hai Spa, and that was completed four years later, 2006.

The Global Financial Crisis came along in 2010 and the next nine years were terrible. I was very lucky in that I’d stuck with a few earlier investments. I could sell out some shares to cover the requirements of the bank, which I always did.

And then in 2012, one brother and a good friend from Adelaide, helped me fund and create the Bali Hai Café, opened in 2014 and I leased that out to a couple that do a fantastic job.

It was sixteen years of stress. It wasn’t without a lot of struggle. I put everything into it. I was ambitious. Once I start something, I want to finish it. I don’t feel special about it or anything, I just feel that that was my job at the time, and I did it.  I’ve dedicated twenty three years to the creation of the resort and spa and café.

It’s been really important just working for myself, being able to call the shots. My role now, is meeting with the management regularly, reporting to banks, accountants, keeping the peace, and in a lot of cases now it’s responding to regular guests, cos you get to know them very well over the years and a lot of them like to catch up. Most people come here, and they love it.

My name is Milena.  I work at Ngala. Ngala helps kids and families in Geraldton.

I make the craft. I’m good at my job.

I like seeing the kids. The kids like my craft.

I’ve worked here 19 years. Books, stickers, cutting, laminating. I get heaps of work done.

I love working here. Its lots of fun.

I’m Christopher and I live in Hall’s Creek. This is river country round here. This is the second town, the old town is way back down that away where my country is. But I got family from right around here as well.

My grandfather grew me up from a little age at a station. I did fencing, helped mind cattle at the yards. I trained horses from the rodeo to be quiet, for people to ride or do a cattle draft.

Now I work at the Kimberley Hotel, at the kitchen. I wash the dishes and all that sort of thing. Aah, it gets proper busy. It’s always been fast in the kitchen, it’s like straight in from nine o’clock. It’s like six hours.

Really, I learnt how to be patient and how to keep up with all the chefs. And when the boss lets me know “Aah you’ve got a shift to come into, we need you to come in”, I’ll be there straightaway, and I’ll get down to the business of really doing it because I really love coming to work. I wanna go there, I wanna do it. I wanna finish it up. And even the chefs, they turn around telling me: “C’mon, hurry up. Quickly, quickly. Do this, this, that, that”. Aah no worries, mate, no worries! Doing about two things there and three things and then racing back, and then coming back again and aah well they show me how to really do kitchen hand things. It’s like more faster than anybody, that like, I can be honest, it’s like really good just coming to work. It’s okay, c’mon, we’re gonna have a fun day now!

The best part of the job, its seeing the chefs saying “good morning” every morning and having the opportunity to have really good bond with my work chefs.

The bosses say that they really like my work, how I do things here, but I don’t really like to boast about it, but it’s really good to have the opportunity to work with all these chefs. I really love all them chefs, they really love doing what they do.

Later on, I’d like to know more about the gardening and go and join up with the gardening fellow here. Like not really take over this job. I wanna have the opportunity to learn other things from gardening business and all that.

The job, it’s like you know really important to me because I really wanna finish up the rest of my licence, and I’m saving for a car. That’ll be the thing that I’m just really doing it for.

I wanna do this because I wanna get down to the business of work and you know, I don’t care what anybody say, anything about anything, but I’m there just to do them dishes, do the work and encourage the chefs that I’m there for them.

UPDATE: About 9 months after filming, Christopher resigned to care for his elderly mother. Some months later, he began part time work – gardening by day and assisting Aboriginal people with safe passage on the Jungarni Juitya Night patrol.

I’m Daniel, I work in Community Living Association, in the IT team.

I just love computers. I was using them back in 1998. I was self-taught. I actually fixed my parents’ computer when I was only 7!

Before I had this job, I was working elsewhere, pulling computers apart and getting the hardware. At the time I was getting bored of my old job, I was not using my mind, it was more hands on.

I actually went into the office, Community Living, I spoke with the CEO over a couple of weeks and then I got the job.

I love it there and I troubleshoot and help people out with their computer issues.

Every time I walk into work, the vibe is so relaxed, and I can have a good conversation before I start work. It’s different every other day and its interesting.

I upgrade computers and install the patches or install software. We sometimes set up the computers for new staff members. I also train people. When I’m in training, I guide them how to use email, the new system and the tablets. I keep everything up to date and running smoothly for the company.

When I’m at home I do a lot of testing and researching. It keeps me up to date with a lot of the technology.  On a regular basis, me and Aaron tell each other new tricks and tips. I’m the guy at work that drives things.

I want people to know, be confident and go and do it!

I am the author and illustrator of the Bush Tales series. I am from Southern Cross.

I love feeding and hanging out with the animals on my farm. They are also the inspiration for my Bush Tales stories. Its about animal heroes who are having adventures.

There are twenty two characters and I’m in the process of getting them all published. I’ve got my first book printed ‘The Bush Tale of Timmy Lamb’. I have my own website and people can buy my books online.

I’ve grown up with animals all my life. I have sheep, five old pigs, one chook left, birds, dogs and a cat. I love them all very much. They are cute and adorable. I just wanna draw them. I like to watch them, what they do. My imagination opens up a whole world.  I see my characters running around. I see how they live, the clothes they wear, and what they do.

Marley Dog is a happy and playful dog. He likes to run around the farm. His story is about him getting lost and finding his way back home.

Timmy the Lamb is based on my pet sheep, Timmy II, who I’ve rescued and raised. In my story, Timmy embarks on a great adventure where he discovers humans.

Sometimes we have crows and ducks visiting. I remember me and my Mum saw a duck fly into our sheep yard. That inspired me to create Mr Duck, who protects the sheep, playing the banjo to them.

I volunteer at the Parnana Pikurtu Wildlife Sanctuary. It’s an animal rescue place where they get loved and cared for and nursed back to health. I bottle feed the joeys, chop vegetables for the birds, feed the chickens and let them run around, and I play with the sheep and goats who have their own yard near the old shearing shed. I give them pats and tell them how good they are.

In my story, Diamond Goat is one of my favourite characters. She’s mischievous and likes to play pranks on the animals that live on her farm. And Miss Hen is a teacher who likes to educate all the young animals.

At the moment, I’m exploring ways to animate my characters, and bring them into virtual reality.  I’ve got plans for lots more stories, and maybe one day, my characters will become animated TV shows.

I love being an author and an illustrator, it’s what I dreamed of. I’m gonna keep on writing stories and I want children to love them and get the joy from them.

I run a business called ‘Tristan’s Yard and Garden Maintenance’.  I do whipper snipping, I do mowing, I do raking up. I check sprinklers. I do chainsawing. I cut all the trees and put it into a bonfire. I work hard and I really love it. I can’t get enough of it.

I do lots of places around here. I do the courthouse. I mow at Bayulu School and Fitzroy School. I just make all the places look tidy.

I mostly cut grass because it’s very important, because you don’t know what’s in it. If you’re walking with barefoot, there might be snakes. I look outside my door and it’s like “oh man, that grass is so long, I just wanna cut it”.

The secret to a good lawn is to make it even and I cut it really low to make it really nice, so people can see what’s in the grass and to make it safe.  If you want your grass to be cut, I’m the guy to call.

We have to take good care of the equipment, just looking after my gear. I check the blades on the mowers, and the filter, and the fuel and the oil.

When I garden it’s really good for me, it really clears my mind, and my stress goes right down. It’s keeping me healthy, it’s really good for my muscles and if you don’t like the sun too much, that’s your bad luck. No one can survive in this heat, but I can.

I like running my own gardening business. I like to be my own boss because it’s really good and they listen to me. About four people work for me.

I do take good care of this place and people respect me a lot. So, when they come to me, I want it to be really perfect. I work really hard for that.

Fitzroy is a good place to grow gardens, you can grow anything. And it’s looking pretty good because of me.

I live in Karratha and work at Kmart. I’m a door greeter at Kmart, and I work within security as well. I sit right up the front, I’m the first person people see at Kmart when they come in.

My job is to welcome people and make sure they’re happy with their experience at Kmart. And I also love to make sure that people are safe. I make sure that they sanitize their hands when they go through and also, I remind them to sign their name at the door and use the COVID app with the QR code. It can get extremely busy.

When people leave the store, I check their receipts to make sure that they have paid. Most people do the right thing, but sometimes people forget and that’s why my job is so important, to make sure that people do the right thing.

If the alarm goes off when people are walking out, I go “excuse me, can I have a look at your receipt?” And if they don’t have a receipt, I send them back to the cashier to ask for another receipt. I have to be on the ball, and I’m always firm but fair, while still keeping calm and relaxed.  It takes a great deal of self-awareness to keep that balance within. And I’ve learnt how to deal with all kinds of people.

I’ve been working there for 11 years now. I’d love to be working extra days at Kmart. Then when I do have a family, as a father I can earn just a little bit more money so I can provide for my children.

In the future, I’d love to be able to study to get my security licence, so that I can become an actual security guard.

I’m extremely fit, and every week I build up my strength and do weights at the gym, and I also regularly train in boxing and stick fighting. Keeping fit and building those skills helps me to stay focussed and calm which is very important for my job, and of course the future work that I want to do within security.

I like working and I like my job because I love to communicate with people and keep people safe.

My name’s Hayden. I’m twenty years old. I work at Farmer’s Centre in Esperance. I also run a Youtube channel, and I’m working towards a career in aviation.

Farmers Centre has been running for generations. They sell and service farm machinery. I’m a detailer, which is getting new or used farm machinery ready for the show yard or delivery.  I blow it down with a heavy diesel air compressor to get rid of all the plant matter, making sure there’s no weeds or foreign seeds that go onto another farm for bio security reasons. My specialty is polishing and interior cleaning. The skills I’m picking up is safety, an eye for detail, working to deadlines, risk management and team work. This job has really improved my life. It’s made me independent, and even better, it’s funding my next career move.

Flying is a big deal in my life. I’ve been exposed to it since quite a young age. As the pilot in command, you decide when and where to go. It just feels so free and liberating. And I like the solitude. The only people who can hear you are the other pilots or air traffic control.

Before every flight I have to do a pre-flight check.  I have to make sure that there’s nothing that can affect the safety of the aircraft. Safety is one of the major factors in aviation, and I’ve been trained to take it very very seriously. I’m good at focusing for long periods of time and keeping the aircraft under control. In fact, in one instance I recovered faster than my instructor did, and I landed an aircraft when the electrics failed.

Right now, I have my recreational pilot’s certificate and I’m working towards my recreational pilot’s licence and private pilot’s licence. I want to fly for Qantas or the Royal Flying Doctor Service, because I like helping people, and I want to do something for the community.

From what I’ve heard there’s not a lot of people on the spectrum who actually fly. On my Youtube channel I want to challenge that and show that people with autism are more than capable of becoming pilots.

I want to keep on flying no matter what.

I’m Brooke, I live in Margaret River. Margaret River is a lovely town, and all the people are really friendly.  I work at the Rec Centre. I’m also an artist, and I work at Drift Café, I’m the waitress.

My family run the café. I love working with my family. I like to talk to the customers, and I am good at making them feel comfortable. If they feel welcome, they will come back. It is really important and it’s good for business to be nice.

My art is on the walls at the café. I love doing painting. I like to draw my family and my favourite tv shows and animals. I use acrylics and water paints. I sell my art at  exhibitions. I want my art to be a business. It’s really important to me. And it makes me money.

I love to work at the Rec Centre with my friends and my job is helping customers check in at the pool or gym. And I make coffee for the customers. In the gym, it is my job to keep it clean. I also do the pool testing. It is important to make it safe.  I work with Tegan and Chris. We’re always laughing. They’re also good fun. The Rec Centre is really cool. It is a really important job for me, I really love it.

I like different. I love having three jobs, it is really interesting. I love my life.

I’m Nigel Tremain and I work at RUAH doing mental health support.

One of the key things for me in supporting people is sitting down and listening to them, what they want, what they want to achieve. Then I connect them with the people who can help them achieve those goals. I’ve been told that I have an ability to see where a person is at, and I’m not intrusive.

The main thing you need in this job is compassion. Compassion I think is something that comes from within.  I treat people with respect, value them for who they are and that usually ends up with a connection with them. People respond to knowing someone is genuinely interested and cares.

Going through what I’ve been through helps me connect with them too.

I wasn’t diagnosed with autism till I was 55. Before my burn out, and then diagnosis, I used to be a nurse for around 20 years. I loved it.  Nursing combined my liking of people with science. I liked being in contact with people and helping them get well. I was what they call a generalist. I put my hand to just about everything.

When I was getting well again, I was studying community services and youthwork. With the support of my supervisor, I went and saw a psychiatrist and was diagnosed. It actually confirmed a lot of things that were happening in my life .

I have never been able to land a job by interview. Every time I went for a job, they wanted to do formal interviews and a lot of them were very complex, and it made it very difficult to convey what  I knew. It doesn’t say autism on my CV, but with the job I have now, I was open with my employer. I did a work trial, and they could see my ability.

That held true in my previous career in nursing too. I’d offer my services as a casual worker and very soon after that I’d be employed.

People with disability have got so much to offer and they know themselves.

I’d like to see employers offering people different ways to show their skills and talents, like a work trial or casual employment, rather than just by interview.

When I get up in the morning I want to go to work because what I do is valued. I see myself doing this work as long as I can.

My name is Sandy Dann, I live here in Broome. I’m a Nyul Nyul woman. My family is from just south of Beagle Bay, which is where our country is on the Dampier peninsula. My early life was pretty much a day to day existence, being part of a vibrant generous community.

I spent most of my childhood in Perth, in Princess Margaret Hospital. I had congenital rubella.  I was given opportunities long before others, because of these constant visits. It was a different window to look in, about how life was outside Broome.

I was always interested in media, especially growing up. As a kid with bandages on for a number of months in hospital, it was often a lonely time and I ‘spose the only friend you had was the radio, other than the nurses sitting down and reading books. Radio just complemented with painting those pictures and giving that taste of what was possible.

My dream was always to get a kind of life that we saw on television, in movies, in books. Not to be glamorous, but to have some sense of ownership.

It was through trying to find a radio cadetship that I found the position to go over to the Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre School in Sydney.  It was learning how to dance, but not just to dance, to do lots of things. Getting a weekend job at Pier 1 was probably the best thing I did. It was a way of earning extra money on the weekend. It was through being a tour guide through an Indigenous Culture Centre there that I was able to gain skills with the art of being able to talk to people, share stories.   I stayed about a year.

Radio was by fluke. I was originally the cleaner here, and it was only through a broadcaster being on air and me being in the studio, cleaning, when he had a guest in, and having a conversation with that guest, was what landed me the job. I didn’t realise he was recording that conversation. I tell you what, I learnt quick and fast, feeling like I was chucked into it. I was able to just face those fears and pull that off.

My show is a magazine style program that goes to air every day of the week for two hours. Usually with the first hour,  it’s getting people settled into work or sitting back with a cup of tea. The second hour is about big picture issues with interviews that link back to communities. It’s been a privilege over the years to talk to some of the people I’ve spoken to.

Goolari Media has had a major impact into the way indigenous stories are delivered, especially having to preserve those stories. It’s the reason why we’re being set up across the country. We’ve arrived as Aboriginal people. We’ve grown. We’re in charge of our autonomy. So, it’s just a matter of being able to embrace and walk together with everybody else.

The best thing I bring to my job I feel is just a collection of voices from the community. I’ve got a coloured world even though my eyesight is limited.

My name is Ross.  I’m a support worker, artist, graphic designer and photographer in Bunbury in the south west of Western Australia.

I didn’t realise I had manic depression, as it was called then, till I was 21. I’d always been either a highly motivated extravert or a very shut down quiet person in school. During my art degree I had a lot of issues with depression.

Through my life I’ve gone through so many periods of being successful and then losing everything. And then restarting.  I didn’t want to go back to office work as a graphic artist.

I enjoy being a support worker and I’m good at it. When I first started, I was volunteering in a sailing program with people with disabilities. I was then employed as a support worker, worked for a couple of years, had a few health issues, quit, and came back to do it again.

Support work is the perfect job. I’m my own boss. And I find it a privilege because people are letting you into their life.

I’m trying to read people on a different level, to find out how they communicate. I think that’s a lot of it, you’ve got to let them open up first. First thing I’m looking for is common ground so there’s a trust, a space where both of you can meet together. Then we work out their interests and how we can spend our time.

Being an artist, I’m quite good with my hands and fixing things and it works with a lot of people, doing something creative. First thing I noticed with one person was that he had a pile of scrap metal out of the front of his house, and his shed was full of tools. There was a washing machine that he’d picked up off the road. Each week we were recycling metal at the scrap yard, and we finally got to the washing machine. I saw the stainless steel barrel and said have you ever thought of making firepits? And he was really excited about that and so we started making them.

I think the best thing I bring to the people I support is the resources I draw from my own life. I’ve had the experience of being in the care of someone else. And I know how I want to be treated: Having your needs understood, not being judged and supported to live the life you aspire to.  Which is what I’m doing now.

To see the people I support do so well makes me look back at myself and levels me out.  I’ve found my place in the community.

Ross also runs a weekly Art for Inclusion group which is opening at the Bunbury Regional Art Gallery on Friday, July 23. Event Details  

My name is Claire, I live in Busselton in the south west of Western Australia and my business is called Claire’s Pet Treats. I love dogs so much. And they love my treats.

My treats are made of chicken and kangaroo and ox liver. I make them in my dehydrators. It’s definitely good for puppies as well as adults. Good for their bones and healthy.

The first step is to cut up all the meat and put them on the trays and put them in the dehydrators. It takes hours through the night. It becomes crunchy just like chips in a packet, like dog chips.

The next step is, weigh them. And then I package them up and tie them with my coloured ribbons, stickers.

I sell my pet treats at the Busselton Foreshore Markets every Sunday. I’ve been in the markets for the last four years. My stall is pink because it’s my favourite all time colour. I have soft toys at my stall, dogs and children love them. I have a giant stuffed dog named Charlie, he’s my mascot. I have free treats for the dogs. Sometimes they bark or jump up and down and I can tell they’re so excited to see my treats. My treats are used for training dogs. It’s fun to see them do tricks.

My store is very popular and  the last Sunday markets I was sold out. My business is doing very well. I really want my business to grow.

I love what I do. I’m the boss of my business. It’s a good feeling.

My name is Isaac Emiliani.

I work at Short Stay, BASSA.

Good people, good place.

I make the beds.

I sweep the floor.

I clean the windows.

I clean the mirror and the walls.

I like mopping the meal room.

I like to help in the laundry.

I work hard.

I bring fun to work.

I like Short Stay.

Good job, fun work.

I’m Kaitlin and I work at the Geraldton Regional Library. I’ve been here for 15 years, and it’s different every day.

It’s awesome to work here with books, cause it’s got all different genres. And I’m a big reader and I love getting out lots of books every single week.

I love working at the front desk cause it’s fun, just meeting new people and helping them find what they want. We check out the books so people can take them out, and afterwards they bring them back and we scan the book back in and put them on the trolley to be shelved.

I like shelving, cause I put all the books away into the right alphabetical order and make it nice and neat and tidy, so people can see where the books are, and they can find them.

I also do book displays in the junior section. I get told what the theme is, and I go through and find books that go with the theme. For example, we do like Saint Patrick’s Day or Australia Day, Christmas or Easter.

With the display, it’s quite fun for the kids so they can learn what the theme is and sometimes we have a big one, which is like an author that comes in and they get to read out their books.

I’ve been reading since I was little. I like all different kinds of stories. I like reading classic books like Charles Dickens or Jane Austen, books that are out of my comfort zone. And I like mixing it up a bit with magical worlds and fantasy worlds.

I love reading a lot. It grows my mind. That’s how I started to get into writing.

I usually like to write poems. I like writing cause its relaxing and time just disappears. I can imagine myself being in a book.

In the future, I would like to do some more training. I would like to work with computers, cause I have good IT skills.

I would like to work at the front desk more and do a bit of customer service out there.  And I would like to help people get books out by using the computer.

The library runs the Randolph Stow Writing Festival and The Big Sky Festival and I’d like to be involved in that, to get to know the authors and also help out. I have a creative mind and I would like to use that.

The library is a really friendly place, and it welcomes new members. I like encouraging people to become members because you can check out all the latest books and magazines and explore all different ideas. And that’s what I do as well.

My name is Devin O’Sullivan. My business is called Devin’s Handy Office Help. We’ve been going for over five years now.

I try to make people’s day a bit easier. I deliver coffee and food. People text their drink orders to my phone.

I pick up shopping, newspapers and lunch for people who find it hard to get out.

Travis and I go to pick up the orders at a few places around town.

We are also happy to pick up keep cups because recycling is important.

I go to lots of schools with coffee orders for staff. Castletown Primary is a regular customer of mine.

I also pick up the newspaper every day and take it to Chris Harris’ Dental Surgery, with a coffee.

I do mail deliveries at Swan’s Vet. I save them having to drop off and collect their mail.

There aren’t a lot of delivery services in Esperance and people love it.

The best things about working are hanging out with Travis, seeing lots of people, visiting lots of places.

So many people know me now and I feel great ‘cos I’m helping people.

My name’s Kaleb.  And I am a music producer and also a mix engineer.

My studio is called Imocean Studio. It’s about my two loves, music and the ocean.

And it’s a play on words because there’s always emotion in music.

I’ve always loved music. I listen to a whole range, it really depends what mood I’m in, but I produce whatever comes through my door.

I’ve done reggae, some blues, indie Rock, country and even some heavy metal. It depends on what the client wants.

I try to keep the vibe of my studio really relaxed because that helps people open up more. I let the artist be themselves first. I let them perform the way that they wanna perform it. And that’s key. And if there’s any issues, I’ll tell them. And together we become a team. And that’s when the magic can happen.

And every single person I work with I learn from.

What I love about mixing is, seeing it come together, hearing a song go from okay to really clear to tight.

That moment when people hear their songs done for the first time, when people come back to pick up their mix. It’s pretty special. That smile on their face says it all.

It’s important because I like feeling like I’ve done my job right. I’ve helped people reach their dreams.

I really love teaching people and sharing knowledge. I have an assistant who helps me with the hands on. And at times, I will mentor them to help them reach their potential.

There’s a quote that says, “I don’t need easy, I just need possible”. It’s pretty much me in a nutshell.

I love what I do, making music and having a laugh and meeting people. This is the best job.

My name’s Suraya. My business is Sunray’s flowers and craft.

I love flowers very much. I take flowers to the cafes. I take flowers every week. This is what I do.

I take my flowers to Yardbyrd. It’s a cool place. I take my flowers to Blue Ginger Café. Paul is at the Hairy Marron. Paul is my favourite customer.

I take invoices to the cafes. They pay me. It’s my business.

I like making beautiful things.

My mum has a beautiful garden. I snip flowers at Mum’s house. I pick petals for the paper. I iron the petals on the paper. I glue the paper around the vase. I make pretty vases.

I’ve been doing my flowers for four years.

My flowers make people happy. Flowers make me happy.

I love my business.

I’m an Admin and Lab Assistant.  I work at Tronox, Koombana Bay Bunbury.  It’s near the Port, right opposite the Dolphin Discovery Centre.

I’ve been working at Tronox for nineteen years. I’m coming up to my twenty years in March.

Tronox mines different minerals and then sorts them out. The minerals get used for sunscreen, cool drink cans, make up and toothpaste.

I’ve got lots of jobs.  The biggest part of my job is recycling the bags.  The bags come from the geologists who test the sand from the mine site.

I get the sample bags from the wheelbarrow and I tip the sand into the kipple.  We have to shake all the loose sand off just in case they don’t get the sand out. You gotta make sure there’s no holes and no missing tags. And then once the washing machine’s finished, we repeat the cycle again, so they come out perfect.

The bags are the biggest part of my job because I think it’s very important to recycle, so they don’t end up in landfill. And then the mine site people have got fresh new bags. So, they don’t have to keep buying bags.

I’m a hard worker. When it’s really busy I work through morning tea. I like to get the job done so I know it’s finished.

Safety is very important, so people don’t get injured. I always do the SAM thing: Spot the hazard, Assess the risk and Make the changes.

I always work safe. I’ve got my PPE. I’ve got my steel capped boots. I’ve got my gloves. I’ve got my safety glasses. My safety record is very good.  Over nineteen twenty years, I’ve never had an accident.

Tronox is a great place to work.  The people here are friendly, and I get along with everybody. I chat to people and have a laugh sometimes.

I really enjoy working here. I wanna keep working here as long as I can, so I can earn money, so I can go places.

I feel very happy and very proud working here for so long.  I started the recycling process 19 years ago. I’ve really made a difference and I’m very proud about it, cause it helps the environment, it doesn’t end up in landfill and it won’t kill the wildlife.

I’ve got all my family here in Fitzroy, grew up here all my life. Fitzroy Crossing is a lovely town, you’ve got the river and the gorge. It’s not a big town but it’s a place you can get around.

I used to work in the station, riding horses, mustering cattle and branding bulls. I was the youngest bloke there. Hard work!

I also played football for the Yakanarra Dockers.  I used to be in the forward line. I used to be like Stephen Hill or Michael Walters.

After my accident, I told them I don’t wanna sit doing nothing. I wanna do something. The Manager at Wangki Radio Station said, Ethan do you want a job?  I said, yeah okay, I would love a job.

The best thing of my life is my job. I’ve had it for six or seven years now. I play mixed Rock ‘n Roll, Country, Indigenous music, pop, all mixed. I play local music like Fitzroy Express and The Now Or Never Boys. I sang with them before I had my accident. When I sing it makes me feel good in myself.

I sing for the old people at the hostel where I live, and I play good music for them and they sing with me, it keeps them entertained. They always put the radio on, and they call for requests. I play requests for all the people round town.

When I’m playing my music at the radio station, I feel like I’m at home.  I’m thinking about people round town, my little brothers, my little sisters.

The radio is a good thing for the people outside if they’re listening in. People like music cos it gives them hope.

At the end of my show, I feel proud of myself. People think I’m a star, but I always tell them, I’m not a star, I’m just Ethan.

People in this town can hear my voice from here to Erskine, to Halls Creek, all around this Fitzroy valley.

I’m the voice in the valley.