Introducing Fiona Clarke

Hi all, I’ll tell you a bit about myself.

I am 45-years-old, a Libran, mother of 2 adult daughters and a teenage son and grandmother of 4 adorable little people. They all live in Sydney now, my having taken my son there when he turned 13 to live with his dad and go to high school.

While I miss them all very much, they are all doing well there and Darwin has become my home. I first came to the NT in early 1998 to participate in the Jabiluka protest and fell in love with the place and the people.

I have always felt strongly about Human Rights’ issues and now that I no longer have children to care for, my involvement with other activists has increased.

While I care a lot about the environment – I came thousands of kilometres to help save Kakadu from uranium mining – my primary focus is with people. I feel very strongly about racism and ending the waste of innocent lives who are casualties of the War on Drugs.

I do volunteer work with the Territory Users’ Forum (TUF) and am involved with the Network Against Prohibition (NAP).

Having been Hepatitis C positive for 16-years as a result of sharing equipment, I campaign for Harm Reduction regarding illicit drug use, supporting taking such measures as users having access to sterile injecting equipment and believe that the re-legalisation of all substances that are currently illicit would result in a massive reduction of lives lost due to Blood Borne Viruses such as HIV and Hepatitis C, or wasted in jail due to draconian and illogical drug laws.

I look forward to the day when all people can work and live together free of racism, bigotry and unjust laws.