A Recognition Australia road trip takes Stan Grant to the girls’ home where his much aunt lived as a child,and into discussions about an Indigenous treaty Bob Glanville remembers them well, the girls in white gloves who would be marched in single file in and out of town. As a young boy he would speak to them sometimes, or occasionally at the swimming pool or seated near them in lesson. But no one really got close.
These were the girls from the home on the hill. These were the girls everyone just assumed were orphans. But they weren’t they had families,mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters. They had homes, but some would never see home again.
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Source: theguardian.com