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Issue Details: First known date: 2007... 2007 Colebrook Home and the Disappeared Past
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Susan Hosking discusses the demolition of Colebrook Home in South Australia, which housed indigenous children separated from their families. She argues that this may enable non-indigenous Australians to more easily forget, rather than remember, an embarrassing period of Australian history.

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.' Milan Kundera

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    y separately published work icon Westerly vol. 52 November 2007 Z1445695 2007 periodical issue 2007 pg. 141-154
Last amended 13 Dec 2007 10:49:56
141-154 Colebrook Home and the Disappeared Pastsmall AustLit logo Westerly
Subjects:
  • Eden Hills, Mitcham area, Adelaide - South / South East, Adelaide, South Australia,
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