Jake Briggs: ‘Becoming a quadriplegic when I had my accident – jumped into a pool and skimmed the bottom of the pool and my neck creased back and just slightly pinched on the spinal cord, which swelled up and starved all of the oxygen to the rest of my body. Yeah, just being a fair-skinned Aboriginal, it was hard, especially when people wouldn’t recognise that you are Koori, but I have always said it … 'you don’t have to be black to be black.' Being of my complexion – and you know what I look like – I have never thought of myself as not being Aboriginal. Like, I have always felt that I fit in. That’s a good thing. I have always felt that I belong.’