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The Stolen Children: a personal account

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Linda Freedman  and
Teresa Donaczy
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Teresa Donaczy’s calm presence and quiet sense of humour cannot mask her pain. The memory of removal from her family at the age of five still haunts her. A re-union thirty-four years later, a happy marriage, nine children and thirteen grandchildren cannot erase the hurt.

Born Teresa Kirby on an Aboriginal reserve in the New South Wales town of Balranald in 1936, Teresa recalls how the Aboriginal people hid their children in the bushes to avoid them being taken by New South Wales Government authorities.

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Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 16 , Issue 4: Rural Australia in the Nineties , 1991 , pp. 19 - 22
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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