Issue Details:First known date:2023...2023Leah Purcell’s Is That You, Ruthie? Is a Powerful Look at ‘Dormitory Girls’ Separated from Country and Family
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'Aunty Ruth Hegarty, or Ruthie, was four-and-a-half years old when she was forcibly removed from her mother, Ruby, under the auspices of Queensland’s Aboriginals Protection Act (1897).' (Introduction)
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