Laurette Butt is a children's author and a member of the Stolen Generations. Butt was removed from her family at age four from Moa Island in the Torress Strait by a missionary. At the age of five, she was placed in Tuffnell Anglican Children's Home at Nundah in Queensland and was told that her mother had abandoned her. Butt worked as a domestic in Charleville from the age of thirteen. When Butt turned forty, she began to search for her family through Link-Up and returned to her home to Moa Island at the age of fifty.
Butt's story was recorded by the National Library of Australia for the Bringing Them Home oral history project and appeared in the associated publication Many Voices: Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, edited by Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich (2002).
