Topics: Families and children

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Central - view

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

South Coastal - view

Pamela Young and her two sisters were taken from their mother

West - view

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

Central - view

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

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.

Central - view

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

South Coastal - view

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

West - view

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

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

West - view

Uncle Colin Gale recalls some of his family’s working history

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

Central - view

Her mother died when she was young and her father was an alcoholic so she was sent to live with her aunty and uncle

West - view

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

West - view

as a teenager she ran away from her abusive husband in Cobar, taking her children with her and somehow making her way in Sydney and The Entrance. And the many times she went back to him, trying to make a go of life with him, but he remained abusive

West - view

At a memorial to the Gully, Uncle Colin Locke , perusing a map of who lived at the Gully , shares stories and information he recalls from the 1950s.