Topics: Families and children
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1980s - North Coastal - view
Lois Birk is employed at the Royal Far West Children’s Home as Aboriginal Co-Ordinator. She then moves to Fisher Road Special School.
1980s - North Coastal - view
Susan Moylan-Coombs works with Manly Council from the Community Office on Social Plan for Indigenous people in Northern Beaches.
1983 - North West - view
Everingham Family “Reunion”
1984 - North West - view
Program grant to promote the care and fostering of Aboriginal children in Aboriginal homes
1985 - South Coastal - view
children
1986 - North Coastal - view
A burial is discovered at Avalon Angophora reserve rock shelter site 1 km from coast in Avalon. Remains include a fully articulated woman’s skeleton and her 6 month old baby skeleton in her arms. The woman has a gypsum cap (clay) on her head used for mourning the dead. Two children are also buried in the rock shelter. The skeletons are ritually reburied in 1986 by Aboriginal Site Officers to acknowledge traditional respect for not disturbing the dead.
1987 - South Coastal - view
Women
1989 - North West - view
“Fighting Sands” brothers
1990 - North Coastal - view
A Land Rights claim initiated by Susan Moylan-Coombs is made over land with Koori rock engravings at Wahroonga between the F3 motorway and Curtin Ave.
1991 - North Coastal - view
Gillian Moody, an Aboriginal film maker, graduates from Barrenjoey High School, having grown up with her adopted family in Avalon. She works with the Indigenous Branch of Screen Australia.
1998 - North West - view
loss of their lives and their freedom, and the forced removal of their children
2000 - South Coastal - view
Five families