Brand Tas

"When I was nine, I had this social worker. It blew my mind. This woman, who had no reason to care for me, showed me love. I remember her like it was yesterday. I became a social worker because of her. She changed the entire direction of my life."

"The community were incredible. They’re a really great bunch of people and they were backing us the whole way. You couldn’t have made the project work anywhere else except Flinders Island."

"The change of pace is what shocked me. All my life I was bombarded with people. And now everything has become so peaceful… there is something really lovely about it, the peacefulness and the quiet."

"I get a lot of referrals from people’s friends now, and I love that. It means people have come feeling worried and alone, and they’ve gotten better and talked to friends about it."

“We had a great upbringing — happy guys living on a farm. There wasn’t the angst to write aggressive, heavy metal. So, we started writing about this place and the things we know.”