Just mad about science

Corey Tutt is a determined man. A day before his interview with Money, he received four messages vilifying him for his race. He says that he uses such attacks to energise his drive to help educate Aboriginal kids across Australia about the wonders of science.

Tutt was born in the Shoalhaven region south of Sydney, but his family comes from northern NSW around Walgett, Gilgandra and Armidale. “For me, being a caramel kid, I’ve had to overcome a lot of trauma to get where I am,” he says. “When you put yourself in the public domain and you are an Aboriginal person in science, you stick out a bit.

“But I turn it into a positive. If I don’t do that, how can I expect the kids [we help out] to keep it positive when someone racially vilifies