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Story SeriesA Mile in My Shoes

Sean Blocksidge

Collected in partnership with Perth Festival and The Empathy Museum, A Mile in My Shoes is an extraordinary collection of stories that give us a glimpse into the lives of Western Australians from all walks of life.

When Sean Blocksidge isn’t busy running tours of Margaret River, he spends his time battling bushfires. In this story, Sean discusses the risk of fires in the Australian bush and his devotion to protecting his community.

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Copyright © 2015 Sean Blocksidge

This story was collected by the Centre for Stories for the Empathy Museum’s A Mile in my Shoes installation as part of Perth Festival 2015. For reproduction and distribution of this story/image please contact the Centre for Stories.

 

 

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A train station
Simone McMahon
Simone McMahon, the Founder and Executive Director of Organ Donation and Transport Foundation of WA, had a kidney transplant when she was a child which completely changed her life for the better. She has since devoted her life to helping people to better their lives in the same way.
A windy street
Evelyn Rivera
At a young age, Evelyn Rivera was exposed to the horrors of the El Salvador civil war. She reflects on what it was like growing up in an environment where she would climb trees and see people being killed across the road, and what it was like adapting to her new home in Australia.
Mountains in the clouds
Adrian McCrae
After growing up on a farm, witnessing his brother being gored by a wild pig and working relentlessly in the WA mines, Adrian gives his all to take a group of paragliders to Kilimanjaro. 
An aerial view of an island
Simon Peterffy
Simon has devoted his life to environmental activism, but the journey has not been without its challenges. He says that being an activist has meant having to make huge personal sacrifices, including losing the custody of his children.
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