Jock Austin was one of the key people behind the establishment of the Fitzroy Stars Gym. Beginning from a small office in the Aboriginal Health Service, the organisation expanded until it finally moved to its current premises in Gertrude Street. The legacy of Jock Austin is remembered by Kutcha Edwards in this way:

Jock taught me a lot of things in regard to being an urban Aboriginal and learning the urban culture and what it was to have respect and stuff like that and the values he instilled in me I still hold to this day

My mother when I was about 10 years of age walking down to the Rainbow Hotel, buying the counter meals from her own pocket to take to the prisoners up at the Fitzroy lock-up..My father, along with Jack Patten and Stewart Murray would make sure they (the Aboriginal prisoners) would have representation at the court, which was across the road from our house.

My father was born at Ramahyuck and my mother was a Thorpe, Ally Thorpe, and she was born on Lake Tyers mission.He was the Treasurer of the old League, my Dad, with the late Bill Onus. My Dad used to travel backwards and forwards to Melbourne before we shifted for meetings. As I say they lived in Gertrude Street and all the Aborigines that came to Melbourne were sent to their place for a bed.

"This is what the white man has done to our people" I've got a photo there of Mum singing at a club for the soldiers.one of the things that I can laugh about is Mum and Auntie Marg Tucker and a few others.I think it was the Moomba parade.what they did was chain themselves all together as a protest basically it was to let the white people know"

At the funeral, an old Aborigine woman came up to me and said that Minnie had fed, clothed and housed her five children for two weeks when she first came to Fitzroy over 20 years ago. Aunt Minnie just met this woman in the Builder’s Arms Hotel. That’s the sort of person she was.