Peter Gibbs- A True Leader from Weilmoringle

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander listeners are warned that the following program contains stories and names of people that are deceased.

Peter grew up in far west NSW on the banks of a river that runs off the Darling, ‘the back of Bourke’ in Weilmoringle.

Peter shares his story of growing up as a young boy in an Aboriginal community. Peter is not one of the children who was stolen from his family, but he was a witness to it, and all the trauma and heartbreak that went along with it.

Today, Peter shares deeply and openly about his story as an Aboriginal man and leader in our community. He also shares the heartbreak of losing his sister Fiona in police custody and how out of that tragedy Peter started the IPROWD (The Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery) Program. Peter Gibbs is an amazing man of vision and leadership.

Podcast notes:

Where is Weilmoringle maps link

The Indigenous Police Recruitment Our Way Delivery IPROWD

Fiona Gibbs death, How a death in custody became the catalyst for IPROWD

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