Advocate and Gomeroi woman Nicole Laupepa and educator Jacqui Parker give workshops on the Voice all over Australia.
Advocate and Gomeroi woman Nicole Laupepa 51, and educator Jacqui Parker, 64, travel all over Australia giving workshops on the Voice. Their odd-couple friendship is reconciliation in action.Abril Felman/City of Sydney: We met about six years ago, when we both worked at a multicultural settlement service in Sydney, where I was implementing a training program. Soon after, I asked Nic to do an acknowledgment of country. Afterwards, on the feedback forms, it was the thing everyone liked most.
Nic is very triggered by racism, understandably. She can go into a furious rage and vent a lot and it can take a while to get over it, but we talk it through. When she calls out intolerance or stupidity, it’s never unwarranted,Through this relationship, I see the innate privilege I experience. We walked out of a department store together recently and I’m talking away and suddenly I realise she’s not there. I look behind, and she’s unpacking her bags for security. It never occurred to me to stop.
She started to invite me to her training sessions. We got talking and realised we were both women who wanted to advocate for human rights. That was how the friendship began. Her parents were Jewish refugees, about four or five years old when they came to Australia from Germany with their parents. She has talked about the struggles around that and how it shaped her parents’ lives. She often talks about how alone she felt as a little girl.
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