Topics: Government policy

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North Coastal - view

extinguishing their right to claim the land as theirs under The Native Title Act

South Coastal - view

Pamela Young and her two sisters were taken from their mother

West - view

“because of the welfare”

West - view

“we had to watch out for the black car that kept coming around” to take Aboriginal children.

Central - view

the role of the Aboriginal Protection Board (1883-1940) during the early 1900s, how Aboriginal people fought at war and still lost their children and homes

Central - view

Vagrancy Act led to persecution of poor people

South Coastal - view

Aboriginal Education Assistant through Sydney University

West - view

cultural interpreter for NSW National Parks

South West - view

military interventions that were sanctioned, one of which being the Appin massacre in 1816

Central - view

NSW National Parks Act (with flora and fauna)

South Coastal - view

Uncle Greg Simms tells how his family and many others were pushed, or dragged if they wouldn’t leave voluntarily, off the land that was used for the Warragamba dam

West - view

moving to Kingswood when he was five to avoid the authorities

South West - view

drink (denied Aboriginal people until 1967)

Central - view

received funding from the Commonwealth Department of Health

South Coastal - view

Janny was funded through the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations

West - view

resumed by the Aborigines Welfare Board. Uncle Gordon, among others, is trying to reclaim the site under heritage laws along with the Native Institute site on the Rooty Hill Rd

South West - view

Auntie Frances Bodkin was put in fourteen foster homes and Paramatta Girls Home

West - view

many Aboriginal families were shipped around Sydney

Central - view

Native Title claim for Gadigal land

South Coastal - view

voting for the first time after the 1967 referendum