Topics: Families and children
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South Coastal - view
Judy tells the story of her mother voting for the first time
Central - view
The family, however, were in denial about their Aboriginality, partly because so many children were being taken away
South Coastal - view
Janny had to leave school because of her mother’s illness
Central - view
Lucy later worked as the hotel cook in Bowral and several of the children were farmed out
West - view
he was removed at the age of 4 from Alice Springs and taken part way in a cattle truck along with other children
West - view
When she was 14 her adoptive mother died, relations with her father deteriorated, she was raped resulting in pregnancy
North West - view
Auntie Christine Lewis and Muffy Hedges discuss their Lewis and Shuttle ancestors
Central - view
Her mother died when she was young and her father was an alcoholic so she was sent to live with her aunty and uncle
West - view
a favoured church of Governor MacArthur, and the times Gordon and the other children spent there
West - view
as a teenager she ran away from her abusive husband in Cobar, taking her children with her and somehow making her way in Sydney and The Entrance. And the many times she went back to him, trying to make a go of life with him, but he remained abusive
West - view
At a memorial to the Gully, Uncle Colin Locke , perusing a map of who lived at the Gully , shares stories and information he recalls from the 1950s.
Central - view
At the age of four Robert Kitchener and his brothers were taken from their parents and then separated from each other
West - view
Uncle Gordon Briscoe revisits the old Mulgoa dormitory in which he and the other children slept during their time there in the 1940’s
South West - view
Auntie Dolly Brown moved from Queensland as a young girl, with her 15 brothers and sisters
South Coastal - view
Sisters Auntie Janny Ely and Auntie Judy Chester spent three years (from 1959) in the army barracks at Herne Bay (where those with nowhere to go ended up) waiting for a government house. Their mother was very ill and, despite help from family, they learned to cook early and Janny missed a lot of school looking after her.