Rosalie

We used to go up to all the old fullas and say “hey, can I come and drink by you and I’ll buy yous a drink, can you say if the police come in that we are with you, that you’re my guardian.

With other children, I could be nice to them, speak nicely to them. But with my own, I just sort of had this anger inside of me.

I didn't want to lose my children. I wanted to change my ways. I wanted to treat them nicely. I wanted to talk to them in love. I wanted to get rid of all this anger and hate I had for myself.

[I had] to look inside myself and say ‘what’s wrong with you? It's not everyone else around you’. Because that’s what I was doing, taking my whole life experience [and] all the hurt out on the people around me, the ones that loved me the most. The ones that I loved the most, I hurt the most.

I can see how it can be passed down […] generation to generation […] We might not have seen these problems later [so] now I see myself reaching out to my children and asking them if they need help [with their drinking].