Rose attends your consultation with her granddaughter, Jacinta.  She says that she feels happy having her granddaughter with her as Jacinta understands her local language and has a good command of English.  (You attempted to contact the local Aboriginal Interpreter Service to organise an interpreter for your interview, but your were informed that there was no one available who had knowledge of Rose’s dialect at the time.)

Rose informs you, via Jacinta, that she was born in her country “up bush” and happily lived in the community until five years ago, when her renal disease forced her to move to a town where she could obtain regular specialist treatment.  Rose tells you that she went to the mission school for a couple of years when she was a child, but then her family moved further up bush and she went with them.