Topics: Families and children: West

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Yarramundi ’s daughter was one of the best known students at The Native Institute

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

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

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

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

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father took him and his brothers to Newcastle

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stories and his memories of the individuals and families

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he was four with one of his other brothers

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

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his family “grew up as whitefellas”

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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

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Darug through her mother’s side and Gandangara through her father’s

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Mulgoa Children’s home , run by the church for the government Welfare Board. It held thirty children for eight years

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he was removed at the age of 4 from Alice Springs and taken part way in a cattle truck along with other children

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

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Gordon Briscoe revisits the old Mulgoa dormitory in which he and the other children slept during their time there in the 1940’s

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Maugaron’s children

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children

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gifted student, and matriarch

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