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Mabo home
...I was well and truly pregnant...
'I was well and truly pregnant. I was due any time. And I remember Mum ringing up and telling me, you know, "Your Dad's got cancer." And I said "What?" And she said "Yeah, he's got cancer" and I said "Cancer of what?"'

Keywords: cancer, death, Mabo, Edward Koiki, Mabo family, Mabo, Gail

Interviewed by Trevor Graham, Kempsey, 1996.
Author: Graham, Trevor
© Film Australia
Source: Mabo, Gail