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'...They pick us up, police pick us up. We tried to run away but they had a police boy that knew every angle of the Bidyadanga area, you know. And they went chasing out everyone but no one tell him anything – they took us away.
I was only, what, I was six years old I think, six, a little girl then. We were crying, “Mummy, mummy.” No good. White man take us but nobody explained. But we’re not shamed. White man was stole us away and they take us away and being cruel to us, take us away and halfway chuck away mummy...' (Transcribed from the Stolen Generations' Testimonies website)
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- Sister Kate's Home, Perth, Western Australia,
- Moola Bulla Aboriginal Pastoral Settlement, Western Australia,
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