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“My mother was five when they literally grabbed her from her mother’s arms,” Marrawarra and Barkindji man Brendan Kerin tells SBS News.
“From there, they spent two weeks in a jail cell and then they were all shipped to Cootamundra Girls Home.”
Aboriginal girls in the New South Wales home were alienated from their families. When they became teenagers, they were sent out as servants to work in white households.
Brendan's mother’s story is tragic but it is strikingly similar to his own.
“I was born at Crown Street Women’s Hospital in Surry Hills in 1971 and I was taken away from my mother in that hospital and I never saw her again,” he says.