Tammy Milne lives in rural/regional North West Coast Tasmania.
She worked for 32 years at the Department of Education Tasmania in many roles, including teacher aide, educational interpreter for the Deaf, Intern Teacher and Librarian. She ran a primary school library over the last 12 years of her career and acted as an interpreter in a high school for her final six months working in the Department and prior to the COVID-19 pandemic and resignation.
She lives by the mantra of owning her disability and wearing it like a suit of armour, the result of trying to fit into the abled world for many years. She lives with a physical disability that is very visible – Arthrogrophosis Multiplex Congenita.
Tammy is very outspoken around both disability and human rights. She believes that she too wise to now to put up with bad treatment of herself and people around me and sees herself as a fierce warrior for our collective cause. She believes she still has much to learn.