Peter Hansen Peter Hansen i(A116758 works by)
Born: Established: ca. 1941 Northern Territory, ;
Gender: Male
Heritage: Aboriginal
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BiographyHistory

Peter Hansen was born at Mount Doreen and was removed as a toddler from his family and community located in the Central Australian desert. He was first sent to The Bungalow in Alice Springs and then to Croker Island Mission. Over the years, Hansen believed he had no living relatives, but was reunited with his mother and family by chance decades later and discovered that they had searched for him.

Hansen'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).

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