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A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cooke. The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under ...
Lousy Little Sixpence took three years to research and produce. In the early stages of production, the film's producers Alec Morgan and Gerry Bostock travelled through New South Wales and Victoria while receiving unemployment benefits, looking for information on the Stolen Generations to include such as newspaper articles, films and photographs.
Lola Edwards was born in 1946 [1] was a member of the Stolen Generations [2] and grew up in Tingha, NSW. [3] Her mother was a Ngarabal woman and father was a Kamilaroi man. Her father was what Aboriginal people would call an "old bush lawyer" and would regularly be an advocate for Aboriginal people in court. Edwards and her family always ...
Lorna "Nanna Nungala" Fejo was born on 14 June 1930 [citation needed] to an Aboriginal mother and white father. [1]At four years of age, Lorna Fejo was forcibly removed from her family and community at Tennant Creek along with her sister, brother, and older cousin, by an Aboriginal stockman and two white men.
The girls taken to the home were part of the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal people in Australia. [18] One former "Coota girl," Lorraine Peeters, established the Marumali Program in 2000, to help people affected by the Stolen Generations to heal from trauma and in a culturally informed manner. [19] [12]
John D. Marks (born 1943) [1] is the founder and former president of Search for Common Ground (SFCG), a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., that focuses on international conflict management programming. [2] [failed verification] Marks now acts as a senior adviser to SFCG.
Tjuukurpa was broken when Europeans imposed their law on the Anangu, Ngura was broken when Aboriginal people were forced to move away from their traditional lands, Walytja was broken when the children of Randall's generation were removed from their family as part of the Stolen Generations and Kurunpa was broken when Aboriginal spirituality was ...
He wrote a publication whilst he was the CEO of the Western Australian Aboriginal Legal Service Inc telling of his experience of forced removal (known as the Stolen Generations). Telling Our Story was described as "the most comprehensive description of the experience of Aboriginal people removed from their families undertaken in Western Australia".