Monday, May 19, 2008

The Bungalow


The telegraph station was converted for use as a place to education “Half-Caste” children – children who were of mixed race: aborigine and white. (1932 – 1942)
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These children were removed from their aboriginal mothers and institutionalized in an attempt to educate them away from their traditional ways.
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This practice was extremely cruel to these families. An excellent documentary movie is “Rabbit Proof Fence”. . . .
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Our tour guide’s mother was one of these children and was pictured in some of the displays inside one of the building at the telegraph station site.

Having this explanation of the history of this location was very moving to use who were familiar with this history.
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Information on the Movie: Rabbit Proof Fence is given here:

It is highly recommended that you rent it if you are interested.
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If you're interested in how the government is apologizing for the previous policy, here are speaches given in Feburary by the leaders of the 2 parties:

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