Topics: Government policy
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North Coastal - view
extinguishing their right to claim the land as theirs under The Native Title Act
South Coastal - view
Pamela Young and her two sisters were taken from their mother
West - view
“we had to watch out for the black car that kept coming around” to take Aboriginal children.
Central - view
the role of the Aboriginal Protection Board (1883-1940) during the early 1900s, how Aboriginal people fought at war and still lost their children and homes
South Coastal - view
Aboriginal Education Assistant through Sydney University
South West - view
military interventions that were sanctioned, one of which being the Appin massacre in 1816
South Coastal - view
Uncle Greg Simms tells how his family and many others were pushed, or dragged if they wouldn’t leave voluntarily, off the land that was used for the Warragamba dam
South West - view
drink (denied Aboriginal people until 1967)
South Coastal - view
Janny was funded through the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations
West - view
resumed by the Aborigines Welfare Board. Uncle Gordon, among others, is trying to reclaim the site under heritage laws along with the Native Institute site on the Rooty Hill Rd
South West - view
Auntie Frances Bodkin was put in fourteen foster homes and Paramatta Girls Home
South Coastal - view
voting for the first time after the 1967 referendum