Muriel Hunter a Broken Hill midwife in the making, and a 2018 Heywire winner

I learned about NSW indigenous Australian Muriel Hunter on a recent Landline episode on the fabulous ABC.

Muriel was one of the group of 2018 'Heywire' winners.

Her family background is from a large family in the Barkindji and Wonkamarra tribes in the Wilcannia and Bourke regions of north central New South Wales.

At age six, she, together with five of her six siblings, was taken into foster care in Broken Hill.

She poignantly says "I thought I'd done something wrong."

Congrats to Muriel Hunter, ABC heywire winner  https://t.co/ep12x0ogNi

— ilovebrokenhill (@ilovebrokenhill) August 18, 2018

I won't spoil her story, which you can find by following this link to the story which appears on the ABC website's 'heywire' section 

http://www.abc.net.au/heywire/heywire-winner-muriel-hunter-broken-hill-nsw/9156412

I found her story inspiring and you may too. You can see her telling her story in a brief two or so minute clip, as well as read about her by following the above link.

After some challenging times, she is well on the way to realising her career dreams to become a nurse and midwife, so as to help her community.

I love stories like that.

Heywire has been running since 1998, so twenty years as of this date. It aims to give young Australians the chance to tell a story about their life in their regional town, and potentially 'win a money-can’t-buy experience' (quoting the ABC's heywire website).

Cheers,

Jane Deany