Topics: Families and children
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North Coastal - view
At the age of 3, Susan Moylan-Coombs was removed from her family
West - view
Mulgoa Children’s home , run by the church for the government Welfare Board. It held thirty children for eight years
South Coastal - view
Pamela Young and her two sisters were taken from their mother
South Coastal - view
Donna Daley recounts how her mother went back to Matraville High as an Aboriginal Education Assistant the year after she left school
West - view
He and other staff at Link-Up are currently helping more than 3,000 people to find their way home.
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