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Many voices : reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation / edited by Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich
Bib ID 683484
Format BookBook [text, still image, volume]
Description Canberra : National Library of Australia, 2002 
©2002 
xi, 324 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 2 cm. + 1 sound disc (CD) 
ISBN 0642107548 (paperback)
Summary

Many voices: reflections on experiences of indigenous child separation.

Partial contents
  • Contents of CD: Track 1. Jim Hart, b.1927, Queensland, separated from family as a child. See ch. 5. Interviewer: David Woodgate (3m 02s)
  • track 2. Clara Coulthard, b.1929, South Australia, separated from family as a child. See ch. 3. Interviewer: Sue Anderson (4m 06s)
  • track 3. John Moriarty, AM, b.1938, New South Wales, South Australia, Northern Territory, separated from family as a child. See ch. 4. Interviewer: Frank Heimans (4m 12s)
  • track 4. Sandra Hill, b.1951, Western Australia, separated from family as a child. See ch. 11. Interviewer: John Bannister (4m 11s)
  • track 5. Trevor Deshong, b.1965, Queensland, separated from family as a child. See ch .6. Interviewer: Colleen Hattersley (4m 45s)
  • track 6. Julie Wilson, b.1958, New South Wales, adopted as an infant. See ch. 6. Interviewer: Frank Heimans (4m 04s)
  • track 7. Dorothy Pyatt, b.1918, South Australia, police officer in remote South Australia, 1950s and 1960s. See ch. 8. Interviewer: Karen George (4m 18s)
  • track 8. Margaret Somerville, MBE, b.1912, New South Wales, Northern Territory, missionary and cottage mother. See ch. 7. Interviewer: Frank Heimans (3m 15s)
  • track 9. Reg Worthy, OAM, b.1920, Queensland, Northern Territory, Victoria, welfare officer, senior administrator, Departmental Head. See ch. 8. Interviewer: Barbara Erskine (4m 55s)D
 
Notes

Includes index.

Accompanying sound disc features nine audio excerpts taken directly from the Bringing Them Home Oral History Project interviews.

Introduction by Jan Fullerton.

Bibliography: p. 307-314.

Digital content preserved

Accompanying sound disc for NL copy kept as N2 copy at Nmt 4721.

Subjects Bringing Them Home Oral History Project.  |  Aboriginal Australians -- Biography.  |  Children, Aboriginal Australian -- Biography.  |  Aboriginal Australians -- Interviews.  |  Aboriginal Australians -- Removal.  |  Aboriginal Australians -- Child welfare.  |  Aboriginal Australians -- Government policy.  |  Child welfare - Children's homes.  |  History - Oral history.  |  Government policy.  |  Child welfare - Child / parent separation.  |  Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations.  |  Australia.  |  Australian
Other authors/contributors Mellor, Doreen, 1948- editor  |  Haebich, Anna, editor  |  Fullerton, Jan, writer of introduction  |  National Library of Australia
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