“When I was younger I was always out in the bush... there was no need to go into town. I grew up in the mustering camps, my grandfather’s country. My favourite thing every day was hunting for turtle... we don't fish for it, we dig. I would walk down to the lagoon to get turtle in a wheelbarrow. I used to hunt a lot with all those old ladies... they all gone now... I used to take them out on the tractor. Dad would give me the keys and I'd take them all out to hunt for turtle... ten or twelve of them! Sometimes it would take three trips, and they were hanging of the side of that tractor! One night we had to camp out there because we got a flat tyre. Dad was worried and he was cranky when he came to find us the next day. He brought cooked chicken but we had already caught all the turtles and had a big feed! My Dad and Mum were always mustering and we lived really in tin sheds growing up, but I love the bush and hunting and now painting. I want to dedicate these paintings to Billy Kid - Dad’s fathers cousin, my Dad Stewart Hoosan and Dinny McDinny my grandfather. My uncle Gordon Rory - Myra’s husband and Linda's husband Freddy Rory. I almost forgot about the McDinny girls, my mum and aunties. They tailed the cattle and rode the horses, and brought the bullocks to the mob. The black soil country was dangerous too. When we were kids we would just dance every night. Mum was the best teacher of all the dance and the songs and the culture. Now I'm the leader of the dance - Mum's dance, our dance. Ngabaya Dance. I sing all the songs too. I take the lead, today now I teach all the young kids the dancing.”