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Stories of Wreck Bay
Author(s) -
Brown Colleen
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.297
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1467-8438
pISSN - 0814-723X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1467-8438.1991.tb00859.x
Subject(s) - project commissioning , theme (computing) , government (linguistics) , publishing , work (physics) , bay , political science , sociology , public administration , history , public relations , media studies , law , engineering , archaeology , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , computer science , operating system
This is the first plenary address by an Aboriginal woman at an Australian Family Therapy Conference. The author reminisces about her early life and highlights changes in her community, giving many vignettes of her own work with Aboriginal people. A recurrent theme is the Aboriginal experience of Government control, and the impact of the dreaded Aboriginal Protection Board, which for decades by deliberate policy removed Aboriginal children to institutions and non‐Aboriginal foster families. (Editor)