Introduction: Remembering back through the heart -- 1. A boy's short life (written with Steve Mickler) -- 2. Experiments in civilising -- 3. Of citizens and outcasts -- 4. Special treatment Western Australian style -- 5. Fighting over the children -- 6. Brooms, spades and Bibles -- 7. Visions of assimilation -- 8. Making nuclear families -- 9. A twilight of knowing
Summary
Overview of the history of the removal of Aboriginal children from their families
Analysis
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander policy
Aboriginal children
Aborigines
Families
Federal issue
History
Social conditions
Welfare measures
Notes
Aboriginal content
Includes index
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages 673-692
Notes
2001 Book of the Year, N.S.W. Premier's Awards; 2001 AIATSIS W J Stanner Award; The Nettie Palmer Prize, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2001