Broken Links Exhibition – the Stolen Generation in Queensland Manunda Library 11–24 December 2009 Broken Links explores the history of the Stolen Generations in Queensland, and the effects this had on many Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders over the generations. This moving exhibition portrays the history of Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islander child removal through records and documents held at the State Library and other institutions, and through five very personal stories of Aboriginal children who were removed from their families between the 1930s and 1973. Lance Riley, Ruth Hegarty and local Cairns resident Doreen Cockatoo were taken from their parents and sent to live in dormitories on missions and reserves during the 1930s and 1940s. After years of being put under duress by officials, Pamela Croft’s mother finally agreed to allow her child to be adopted in 1960. |
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In 1973, Sharon Kinchela and her siblings were removed from their mother and after being in institutional care for some years, were told their mother had died. It was not until 1977, when Sharon’s mother was finally permitted to collect her children they realised she was alive.
These people and their families have agreed to share their stories in exhibition in the hope that this history will never be repeated.
In this exhibition you hear the personal accounts of children who were removed and read the documents that allowed this to happen.
For more information visit www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on
Dates: Venue: |
Friday 11 to Thursday 24 December 2009 Manunda Library |
Inquiries: Lee Finkelstein, Special Services Librarian, Marketing Cairns Libraries, Ph: (07) 4044 3797 l.finkelstein@cairns.qld.gov.au
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