Rhett McDonald is a Counsellor/ Advocate working and living across the lands of the Boandik First Nations people in Southern Australia. He is employed by Survivors of Torture & Trauma Rehabilitation Assistance Service working with people from a refugee and migrant background who have experienced torture or been traumatised as a result of persecution, violence, war or unlawful imprisonment prior to arrival in Australia. Striving to work in de-colonising and collaborative ways, the hope is to allow the exchanges of the work to be as transformational as possible for everyone.
Rhett has experience working in the International & Humanitarian sector with over 10 years spent aboard on assignments in the field of child health, training & development and safety & security.