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

he and his brother were fostered to a non-Aboriginal family shortly after he was placed in a home at the age of four

West - view

Dennis Foley remembers his cousins, four girls who were taken away when he was six

South Coastal - view

Judy tells the story of her mother voting for the first time

West - view

He and other staff at Link-Up are currently helping more than 3,000 people to find their way home.

Central - view

moved to Sydney for her mother’s health, Delma Davidson always went to school

West - view

for his mother and grandmother it was not safe to declare oneself a Koori

West - view

Dennis himself was later taken to Minda home ; his father was ill and his mother fell behind on the rent. The police came to his school to get him - a regular occurrence for Aboriginal children in Chester Hill North

South Coastal - view

Janny had to leave school because of her mother’s illness

West - view

Greg Simms grew up at La Perouse and was taught many things by the old people

Central - view

“You have to be better than them to be equal”, said her Dad

West - view

father took him and his brothers to Newcastle

South Coastal - view

His family is diverse with many connections by marriage between the North and South coasts. His Timbery cousins – descendants of Pemulwuy – were taken away as stolen generation s children

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

Central - view

an old woman who had had seventeen of her children taken from her

West - view

he was four with one of his other brothers

South Coastal - view

Judy Chester and Janny Ely were born in Wellington in the 1950’s but moved to Caroline St, Redfern as children because of their mother’s ill health

West - view

a favoured church of Governor MacArthur, and the times Gordon and the other children spent there

Central - view

The family, however, were in denial about their Aboriginality, partly because so many children were being taken away

West - view

his family “grew up as whitefellas”