Battling the Lions

Selina has a real chance of passing her Year 12 in 2011 and of commencing UQ Law in 2012. She plays for Queensland AFL and the photo has her on the boundary line at the Gabba with her brother Austin Wonnameri and other aborigines who play for Melbourne.

Mid Winter is the worst time for Tiwi in Toowoomba, waking to a temp of zero each morning - very tough for someone born in a sauna.

The Melbourne Indigenous players were delighted to club with Selina, Ella and Caitlyn. It is great that traditional guys are breaking into the highest football in the land, but peace at home will come when the young ones are also claiming their spots in Australia's Universities.

It is just on one hundred years since Bishop Gsell first went to the Tiwi Islands. There is a good chance that Selina will celebrate the occasion by commencing at at University of Queensland.

It took more than one hundred years for the descendants of the Irish 1847 an Gorta Mór famine, to battle their way through to gain entry to Australia's universities.

These Tiwi kids are heroes, battling the cold to give their community hope and opportunity. If you can help, go to the St Vincent de Paul Society's appeal page and make sure you pull down the Tiwi Education Project appeal from the menu. http://vinnies.org.au/tiwi-islands-education-project-qld