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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Frank Byrne
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'Yeah, hello, this is me Frank Byrne. I born station called Christmas Creek, Western Australia in The Kimberleys. My mother was Aboriginal women; her name was Maudie. Her Aboriginal name was Yooringun and I had a good mother. My father was a white fella named Jack Byrne and ... but I ... he actually wanted to marry my mother but in those days they wouldn’t let them so he had to go to another station to get a job...' (Transcribed from the Stolen Generations' Testimonies website)

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    y separately published work icon Stolen Generations' Testimonies Board of the Stolen Generations’ Testimonies Foundation , 2007 8960307 2007 website

    'The ‘Stolen Generations’ Testimonies’ project is an initiative to record on film the personal testimonies of Australia’s Stolen Generations Survivors and share them online.'

    'The Stolen Generations' Testimonies Foundation hopes the online museum will become a national treasure and a unique and sacred keeping place for Stolen Generations’ Survivors’ Testimonies. By allowing Australians to listen to the Survivors’ stories with open hearts and without judgement, the foundation hopes more people will be engaged in the healing process. ' (Source: Stolen Generations Testimonies website)

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  • Beagle Bay Mission, Beagle Bay, Kimberley area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
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