As a young woman Eileen Wani Wingfield mustered cattle and sheep with her father and sister.
During this time she had to hide from the authorities, who were removing biracial children from their families and sending them to institutions to be trained for a life of servitude.
[2] In the 1950s and 1960s, a dozen full-scale nuclear tests were conducted in the southern Australian deserts by the British military.
[4] They travel round Australia speaking against the project and working at keeping their culture alive.
'[5] In 2000 she and Eileen Kampakuta Brown published Down the Hole, a children's book based on their own childhood experiences of hiding from the authorities.