Introducing herself at the inaugural meeting of a federal arts funding body, Caroline Bowditch showed a photo of herself dancing on a table at the age of five.
“I rather fancied myself as Olivia Newton-John,” she told AAP.
Bowditch, who describes herself as a proud disabled person and wheelchair user, has been dancing and performing for as long as she can remember and used to dream of being a ballerina or ice skater.