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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Nita Marshall
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'...They pick us up, police pick us up. We tried to run away but they had a police boy that knew every angle of the Bidyadanga area, you know. And they went chasing out everyone but no one tell him anything – they took us away.

I was only, what, I was six years old I think, six, a little girl then. We were crying, “Mummy, mummy.” No good. White man take us but nobody explained. But we’re not shamed. White man was stole us away and they take us away and being cruel to us, take us away and halfway chuck away mummy...' (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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Subjects:
  • Sister Kate's Home, Perth, Western Australia,
  • Moola Bulla Aboriginal Pastoral Settlement, Western Australia,
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