PRESS
2023
Beat Magazine: Ability Fest showed how music festivals should be
Triple J - Meet DJ Cooper Smith
ABC: Triple J unearthed
2021
2016
Photograph credit: Kmart Australia
"At 11 Cooper said he felt strongly about being represented as a person with disability in mainstream advertising. He said “When I look at magazines and TV I never saw anyone with a disability like me who uses a walker and a wheelchair so I felt like I wasn’t represented. I really wanted to try modelling as a child who happens to have a disability”
Starting with Julius, 2016
2010
"Mum Bronwyn Leeks said the family was researching a holiday to Cambodia when Cooper became very distressed on learning that some children there went hungry, and some didn't even go to school."
Herald Sun, 2010