Topics: Families and children
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1934 - North West - view
As a “half-caste” girl, Joyce is removed from her mother and home while a small child
1935 - South Coastal - view
families
1935 - South Coastal - view
family
1936 - South Coastal - view
Koori women
1937 - South Coastal - view
Koori families
1938 - North West - view
Percy Haslam’s family
1939 - North West - view
As a child, he spends many hours with his grandparents learning about his culture
1939 - South Coastal - view
relatives
1941 - North West - view
As a small child Merle Stevenson (parents Cleo Jonas and Robert Stevenson ) returns with her family to her Spirit Home
1946 - Central - view
‘It was the big thing to come for young Aboriginal people, I was 17. Mum used to tell him, ‘Oh don’t fight with the manager Chicka. He’ll cut off our rations'
1946 - North West - view
The fear of having their children taken away by the APB (later Welfare Board)
1946 - South Coastal - view
mother
1950 - North West - view
The assimilation policy denies Aboriginal people their basic rights. It stops them from raising their own children