Moree in New South Wales promotes itself as the artesian spa capital of Australia because of its hot springs. But in the 1950s and sixties, segregation and racism were rife here. It was a hard place to live if you were Aboriginal. We weren't allowed in shops or anything. It wasn't even allowed to walk up streets like they do now. We couldn't physically practice. We couldn't speak our language. If the manager found out, we'd be instantly taken away. For Moree’s Mehi River, Gomeroi man Uncle Wayne Nean reflects on his childhood here. When you grown up conditioned that way, it's you learn to accept it. It's just like we're in the bubble and they're outside the bubble. Living on the mission outside town was tough. We weren't allowed to go off the mission unless authorized by the manager and what the manager said we had to do. The Olympic pool is a popular sport. Moree is scorching in summer, but Aboriginal kids weren't allowed to swim in the Moree Baths because there was a colour ban. And the only sort of pleasure, like the entertainment we got was we’d go and play cowboys and Indians on the riverbank. Freedom and equality. In the summer of 1965, the Civil Rights movement in America was taking off. But Australia wasn't talking about its own blatant racism. A group of uni students, including Arrernte man Charlie Perkins, who was one of only two Aboriginal students at Sydney Uni at the time, hired a bus and headed west to make history. A lot of Australians talk about, oh yes, we want to give the Aborigines a fair go, then it's full stop and it's usually forgotten. When I got to Moree they picked up Uncle Wayne and other kids from the mission and took them to the pool. There was a lot of shoving and pushing and a lot of abuse and it was coming from non Aboriginals because they didn't want us to access the pool. Six months after the Freedom Rides visited the town, the Moree Council removed the rule, excluding Aboriginal people from the local swimming pool. So it was a new horizon for us, you know, thinking, oh wow, we could go into the shop, we could go into the pool. Uncle Wayne has never forgotten what Charlie Perkins did for him. Those Freedom Rides changed the course of his life, encouraging him to dream big and inspiring him to leave Moree and go to university in Darwin. He opened the doors up for us to reach out, you know, and keep, keep at it to get better, you know, get better ways of living and work. Nah he's been an inspiration to me, really.