Topics: Government policy
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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
South Coastal - view
The Homes Trust, where materials and land were allocated in The Valley but people were left to put the houses together themselves
South West - view
changes in the Land Rights Act and the land councils and the effect it has had
South Coastal - view
assimilation policy
West - view
Julie Janson reads the letter from The Office of Environment and Heritage permitting damage to the Colebee site