The moment an eye patch is removed after cataract surgery and a patient can see again: that's the moment of fulfilment for eye surgeon Kris Rallah-Baker.
"When those people aren't able to get out on country, they're not able to transmit intergenerational knowledge that's been around for thousands and thousands of years."
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Kris knows how losing connection to country can affect a family — much of his own history has been lost. Some of his crowd were part of the Stolen Generations, taken away by white authorities and put in missions where their stories and language were forbidden.
One of those was his maternal great-grandmother, Lena Nora. Lena's father was the Scandinavian station master.
For reasons unknown, Mary left, or was sent from, the station with Lena and a son, ending up in a "Black camp" in Bowen.
The family was separated, with Lena taken to Barambah mission almost 1,000km away before being sent further south to Myora mission, on Minjerribah, or North Stradbroke Island.
After qualifying, he was subjected to racism by a fellow doctor, this time for not being Black enough.
Raelene, one of Queensland's first Indigenous health workers, is from the Warrungu crowd of the Cardwell/Tully area of north Queensland, and Yuggera from around Brisbane.
Kris was in his Noosa rooms in July 2022, a fledged ophthalmologist with stints of outreach work in Alice Springs and Darwin, when an email arrived from an ACT general practitioner.