Come and hear Townsville elder Yvonne Butler's tough but inspirational story of how living on the edge of the Tablelands town of Mt Garnett in the 1950s and 60s meant truly living on the edge ... and why she won¹t accept her $4000 'reparations' from the Queensland Government.

"I know how I worked and how everyone worked," says Mrs Butler who was hospitalised for two years with malnutrition as an 8-year-old.

Inspired by the stolen wages campaign Mrs Butler is now networking with her own family, unions, women's and migrant groups across north Queensland to fight for a better deal.