Topics: Families and children

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1980s - North Coastal - view

Lois Birk is employed at the Royal Far West Children’s Home as Aboriginal Co-Ordinator. She then moves to Fisher Road Special School.

1980s - North Coastal - view

Susan Moylan-Coombs works with Manly Council from the Community Office on Social Plan for Indigenous people in Northern Beaches.

1980 - Central - view

250 families are accommodated in the Redfern area, mainly the Block

1980 - Central - view

250 families on the waiting list for accommodation

1983 - North West - view

Everingham Family “Reunion”

1984 - North West - view

Program grant to promote the care and fostering of Aboriginal children in Aboriginal homes

1985 - South Coastal - view

children

1985 - Central - view

For many families the houses are too small or too expensive to maintain

1985 - Central - view

AHC is expected to take responsibility

1986 - North Coastal - view

A burial is discovered at Avalon Angophora reserve rock shelter site 1 km from coast in Avalon. Remains include a fully articulated woman’s skeleton and her 6 month old baby skeleton in her arms. The woman has a gypsum cap (clay) on her head used for mourning the dead. Two children are also buried in the rock shelter. The skeletons are ritually reburied in 1986 by Aboriginal Site Officers to acknowledge traditional respect for not disturbing the dead.

1987 - South Coastal - view

Women

1988 - West - view

children

1989 - North West - view

“Fighting Sands” brothers

1990 - North Coastal - view

A Land Rights claim initiated by Susan Moylan-Coombs is made over land with Koori rock engravings at Wahroonga between the F3 motorway and Curtin Ave.

1991 - North Coastal - view

Gillian Moody, an Aboriginal film maker, graduates from Barrenjoey High School, having grown up with her adopted family in Avalon. She works with the Indigenous Branch of Screen Australia.

1992 - West - view

family

1992 - Central - view

children, appear to bear symptoms of crippling poverty

1998 - North West - view

loss of their lives and their freedom, and the forced removal of their children

2000 - Central - view

elderly Aboriginal people

2000 - South Coastal - view

Five families