Banjo begins telling his story with 1922 but tells us the history of the land and the Aboriginal as well. This is important, as history needs to be remembered. He shares how he was raised in a bark hut in the bush and lived as his people had for generations. He shares how his generation was the one caught in the middle of tradition and the ways of white man. I imagine that Banjo was a humble man who felt he was only acting as an Aboriginal should, treating everyone like family and treating family as oneself. What the world sees though is someone who gave and gave and is still giving through his words.

There were many big things that Banjo accomplished, such as building roads for the army during World War II and fighting with a very famous boxing troupe, but there were even more things he did that likely have changed the world in their simple way. Teaching young people about the forest and the old ways, helping a man who had previously been bigoted and violent to him, remembering who is laid to rest in virtually unmarked graves and sharing their life stories, being kind to animals and protecting his ancestral forest were all every day acts of love for Banjo.