PHOTO: NSW Woman of the year Lynda Edwards. Image: AAP.
Growing up, NSW Woman of the Year Narromine’s Lynda Edwards said she was struck by the “inequities” around her.
“What people, particularly those in the national space, need to understand is First Nations people have only had money in their economies for 100 years,” Edwards told the Western Plains App.
“My grandfather was paid in rations. First Nations people were not allowed to have their own homes and their own money for a long time after colonialisation…my Grandfather never taught my mother about what it means to be part of the economy and my Mother never taught me”
Lynda Edwards, was who named the 2023 NSW Premier’s Woman of the Year shortly after taking out the NSW Aboriginal Woman of the Year award last week, said that from a young age she really saw the value of education…