Working with OSE

• Are relationships serving the project, or serving its founder? If they serve the founder, then they expect the founder to be grateful, and help them if they ever need it. But if they are serving

Quotes on the Topic

• If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. - Lila Watson. The meaning is this: “How can I help? What do Aboriginal people want?” Lilla Watson and other members of her family got involved with such organisations after moving from their Gangulu country on the Dawson River in 1965. They, like others, felt frustrated by those questions. They could not, and would not tell white people what to do: and saw reflections of persisting colonial perceptions and attitudes in their offers of help. They needed help to liberate themselves from these: and so the challenge: “If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. If you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.”