Cathy Freeman carried the hopes of a nation. Now she has unfinished business

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Twenty years after Cathy Freeman carried the hopes of a nation at the Sydney Olympics, she shares her full story for the first time, and talks about the work that lies ahead.

"My ancestors were the first people to walk on this land. Those other girls were always going to come up against my ancestors. Who's going to stop me?"

"I just thought it was about time I shared as much of the whole story and as much of the experience as I could," she said.Her daughter saw a trailer the other day and was a bit confused."Look, you know, you need to understand who I am as a mother, and as a woman, as a person," Mum said.Freeman has known the film's French-Australian director Laurence Billiet for a long time.

"Stephen Page [Bangarra artistic director] was the perfect person for the job in terms of really telling a story and locking into the story and the whole intent of the story."It's absolutely reflected so perfectly. It's a wonderful aspect of the film." "We'll often walk into a schoolground ... and you often hear, 'Cathy! Cathy Freeman!' and it's really beautiful, because we're certainly welcomed into community," she said.

"But if it is about going and chasing dreams elsewhere, we want the young people to know that that's an opportunity that's there for them as well.""We find it inspirational," Ivy Yoren said."Every time when they ask us questions about who would you look up to and who's an Indigenous role model, I would say Cathy Freeman.

"The question of what's next is always right there in the centre of our lives, outside of family life," she said.

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