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Pattie (Janke) Lees Pattie (Janke) Lees i(A116551 works by)
Born: Established: 1948 Cairns, Cairns area, Ingham - Cairns area, Queensland, ;
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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Pattie Lees was removed from her family, along with four siblings, when she was ten years, and sent to live on Palm Island. Her brother, who was eleven at the time, protested and for his resistance he was handcuffed and taken.

Lees' story was recorded by the National Library of Australia for the Bringing Them Home oral history project and appeared in the associated publication Many Voices: Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation; edited by Doreen Mellor and Anna Haebich (2002).

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