Topics: Government policy

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West - view

Dennis himself was later taken to Minda home when his father became 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

West - view

evacuation of the half-castes from the half-caste institutions in and around the Northern Territory” during the Second World War

South West - view

Glenda Chalker discusses some of the problems created by the introduction of Native Title, a federal system, which conflicts with the Land Councils who are in charge of land acquired through the state Land Rights Act

South Coastal - view

they got dole tickets, rather than money, but that people had to find their own way to Circular Key to collect their money

West - view

The home was used as a refugee camp for Aboriginal children

Central - view

woman who had had seventeen of her children taken

South Coastal - view

stolen generation

West - view

school for Aboriginal children established by Governor Macquarie near Parramatta

South Coastal - view

Native Title

North Coastal - view

stolen generations

South Coastal - view

Kinchela boys home

West - view

Governor Macquarie giving his forebear a land grant at Blacktown

South Coastal - view

department of housing inspector was a regular visitor, trying to prove them “dirty blacks” so he also could take them away.

North Coastal - view

Susan Moylan-Coombs was removed from her family

South Coastal - view

Taken from her mother as a baby and sent to live with a foster 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

Marella Boys Home where he was taken at the age of 4.

North West - view

owned by Aboriginal people and recognised as an Aboriginal Place through the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH).

North Coastal - view

meeting the requirements of The Native Title Act are often impossible when so many people were killed and so much culture destroyed

West - view

Mulgoa Children’s home , run by the church for the government Welfare Board.