YOU don't see it coming. That's what they say, after the abduction, the theft, the removal, the relinquishment. Despite everything - poverty, deprivation, violence - you don't
think it's possible. They wouldn't take your child. But they did, and
they do. Right up to the 1980s, it didn't require much: unemployment,
the death or desertion of a husband, or no husband to begin with.
Aboriginal blood, or illness, mental or physical. Hunger. Sometimes it was "the welfare" in shiny black cars. Recognising them, mothers would yell to their children: Run! It might be someone in uniform - a nurse, a nun, a police officer. Or, more insidiously, someone with the familiar face of family.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/all-the-lost-children/story-e6frg8h6-1226607413904
Aboriginal blood, or illness, mental or physical. Hunger. Sometimes it was "the welfare" in shiny black cars. Recognising them, mothers would yell to their children: Run! It might be someone in uniform - a nurse, a nun, a police officer. Or, more insidiously, someone with the familiar face of family.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/features/all-the-lost-children/story-e6frg8h6-1226607413904