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Stolen Generations member Robert Isaacs opens up in Two Cultures, One Story memoir
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FebFebruary 2021 at 9:29pm
Trailblazing public servant Dr Robert Isaacs reveals his harsh upbringing in his new memoir Two Cultures, One Story.
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For a man who has spent his life working within the system to improve the lives of Aboriginal people, Robert Isaacs could be forgiven for harbouring a deep resentment for the institutions that raised him.
WARNING: This story contains descriptions of child abuse that readers may find distressing.
A member of the Stolen Generation whose Aboriginality was hidden from him, the trailblazing public servant experienced the brutal side of government policy growing up as a ward of the state.
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Australia s Fortescue Metals Group has apologised to an Aboriginal group for clearing land on a heritage site while failing to meet a government condition for representatives of the community to be present when the damage took place.
It is the week s second such incident, despite pressure on Australian iron ore miners to show they have improved practices to manage important sites after Rio Tinto destroyed two sacred rock shelters for a mine expansion last May.
Fortescue had state government permission to clear the land in the Weelumurra Creek area registered as sacred to the Wintawari Guruma people, on condition that community elders were present to perform salvage and cultural rites, four documents reviewed by Reuters showed.
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