Topics: Families and children

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stories and his memories of the individuals and families

South Coastal - view

Taken from her mother as a baby and sent to live with a foster family,   Auntie Pamela Young grew up told she should be ashamed of her Aboriginality

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for his mother and grandmother it was not safe to declare oneself a Koori

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pain and suffering many endured, particularly through fallout from the stolen generations

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another stolen generations man

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father took him and his brothers to Newcastle

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At the age of 3, Susan Moylan-Coombs was removed from her family

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Mulgoa Children’s home , run by the church for the government Welfare Board. It held thirty children for eight years

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his family “grew up as whitefellas”

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moved to Sydney for her mother’s health, Auntie Delma Davison always went to school

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Pamela Young and her two sisters were taken from their mother

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Darug through her mother’s side and Gandangara through her father’s

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“You have to be better than them to be equal”, said her Dad

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Donna Daley recounts how her mother went back to Matraville High as an Aboriginal Education Assistant the year after she left school

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He and other staff at Link-Up are currently helping more than 3,000 people to find their way home.

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an old woman who had had seventeen of her children taken from her

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Judy tells the story of her mother voting for the first time

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Greg Simms grew up at La Perouse and was taught many things by the old people

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The family, however, were in denial about their Aboriginality, partly because so many children were being taken away

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Janny had to leave school because of her mother’s illness