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'On Christmas Day 1957, Joe Trevorrow walked through the blistering heat to seek help for his sick baby boy. When relatives agreed to take Bruce to hospital, Joe was relieved — his son was in safe hands — but, within days, Bruce would be living with another family, and Joe would never see his son again. At the age of ten, Bruce would be returned to his Indigenous family, sparking a lifelong search for an identity that could never truly be known and a court case that made history.'

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    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 292p.p.
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      • Published 2 July 2019

      ISBN: 9781925815115

Works about this Work

The Value of a Chance : Generational Trauma in Indigenous Comunities Michael Winkler , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 413 2019; (p. 16-17)

— Review of A Stolen Life : The Bruce Trevorrow Case Antonio Buti , 2019 single work biography ; My Longest Round : The Life Story of Wally Carr Gaele Sobott , Wally Carr , 2010 single work biography

'Philip Larkin famously suggested that ‘they fuck you up, your mum and dad’, but the alternative is usually worse. Twenty years before Larkin wrote ‘This Be the Verse’, his compatriot John Bowlby published Maternal Care and Mental Health (1951), which described profound mental health consequences when infants are denied parental intimacy. Bowlby delineated the centrality of this ‘lasting psychological connectedness’ to well-being in later life, something cruelly withheld from many members of Australia’s Stolen Generations.

'Bruce Trevorrow and Wally Carr were born in the mid-1950s into Aboriginal families that were incredibly poor, living in makeshift huts, foraging for bush food to supplement supplies, and terrified of visits from welfare officers. When Trevorrow was one, he was removed from his Ngarrindjeri family to live with a non-Indigenous family. Carr remained with his own Wiradjuri family. They were very different men with some crucial factors in common. Both achieved national prominence for different reasons. Both died prematurely.' (Introduction)

The Value of a Chance : Generational Trauma in Indigenous Comunities Michael Winkler , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 413 2019; (p. 16-17)

— Review of A Stolen Life : The Bruce Trevorrow Case Antonio Buti , 2019 single work biography ; My Longest Round : The Life Story of Wally Carr Gaele Sobott , Wally Carr , 2010 single work biography

'Philip Larkin famously suggested that ‘they fuck you up, your mum and dad’, but the alternative is usually worse. Twenty years before Larkin wrote ‘This Be the Verse’, his compatriot John Bowlby published Maternal Care and Mental Health (1951), which described profound mental health consequences when infants are denied parental intimacy. Bowlby delineated the centrality of this ‘lasting psychological connectedness’ to well-being in later life, something cruelly withheld from many members of Australia’s Stolen Generations.

'Bruce Trevorrow and Wally Carr were born in the mid-1950s into Aboriginal families that were incredibly poor, living in makeshift huts, foraging for bush food to supplement supplies, and terrified of visits from welfare officers. When Trevorrow was one, he was removed from his Ngarrindjeri family to live with a non-Indigenous family. Carr remained with his own Wiradjuri family. They were very different men with some crucial factors in common. Both achieved national prominence for different reasons. Both died prematurely.' (Introduction)

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