Topics: Government policy

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Governor Macquarie giving his forebear a land grant at Blacktown

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

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Susan Moylan-Coombs was removed from her family

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

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

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

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

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

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high school, receiving his first Aboriginal study grant

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chose to marry the father of the baby rather than lose her child.

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Bringing Them Home Program

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extinguishing their right to claim the land as theirs under The Native Title Act

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Pamela Young and her two sisters were taken from their mother

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“because of the welfare”

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“we had to watch out for the black car that kept coming around” to take Aboriginal children.

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the role of the Aboriginal Protection Board (1883-1940) during the early 1900s, how Aboriginal people fought at war and still lost their children and homes

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Vagrancy Act led to persecution of poor people

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Aboriginal Education Assistant through Sydney University

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cultural interpreter for NSW National Parks