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Stories

Listen to the stories of First Nations people and non-Indigenous Australians.

    • Overview
    • Something's not right
    • Who are Indigenous Australians?
    • First Nations disadvantage in Australia
    • Intergenerational trauma
    • The lack of treaty
    • The Intervention
    • Bob's story
    • Losing home - Iris's story
    • Miliwanga's story
    • Separation - Ruth's story
    • Overview
    • What about history?
    • Colonisation
    • In the name of protection
    • Busting the myth of peaceful settlement
    • The Stolen Generations
    • Early colonial attitudes
    • Early missionaries to Australia
    • Assimilation
    • What's the fuss about Jan 26?
    • The civil rights movement in Australia
    • The 1967 Referendum
    • Mabo and Native Title
    • Wave Hill Walk-off
    • Australia Day
    • Australia Day: answers to tricky questions
    • Anzac Day - Lest we forget
    • Separation - Ruth's story
    • Losing home - Iris's story
    • Stolen wages - Iris's story
    • Doug's story
    • Bob's story
    • Overview
    • What does this have to do with me?
    • Australia Day: answers to tricky questions
    • What's the fuss about Jan 26?
    • Mabo and Native Title
    • Busting the myth of peaceful settlement
    • Overview
    • Why are culture and identity important?
    • First Nations kinship
    • Aboriginal spirituality
    • The importance of land
    • Welcome to and Acknowledgement of Country
    • Bob's story
    • Culture and Identity activity
    • Overview
    • What can I do?
    • Connecting locally with First Nations communities
    • Attending First-Nations-led events
    • Fiona's story
    • Mark's story

Learn more about our Learning Framework

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Curriculum Resources

  • Overview
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  • Our History Workshop
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    • Doug's story
    • Separation - Ruth's story
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    • Miliwanga's story
    • Mark's story
    • Bob's story
    • Stolen wages - Iris' story
    • Fiona's story
  • The Last Daughter
    • Australia Day
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    • Mabo Day
    • NAIDOC Week
  • Pride and Pain
  • Take action in your Classroom
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    • the-wound-lg.webp The Wound
      • Overview
      • Something's not right
      • Who are Indigenous Australians?
      • First Nations disadvantage in Australia
      • Intergenerational trauma
      • The lack of treaty
      • The Intervention
      • Bob's story
      • Losing home - Iris's story
      • Miliwanga's story
      • Separation - Ruth's story
    • our-history-lg.webp Our History
      • Overview
      • What about history?
      • Colonisation
      • In the name of protection
      • Busting the myth of peaceful settlement
      • The Stolen Generations
      • Early colonial attitudes
      • Early missionaries to Australia
      • Assimilation
      • What's the fuss about Jan 26?
      • The civil rights movement in Australia
      • The 1967 Referendum
      • Mabo and Native Title
      • Wave Hill Walk-off
      • Australia Day
      • Australia Day: answers to tricky questions
      • Anzac Day - Lest we forget
      • Separation - Ruth's story
      • Losing home - Iris's story
      • Stolen wages - Iris's story
      • Doug's story
      • Bob's story
    • why-me-lg.webp Why Me?
      • Overview
      • What does this have to do with me?
      • Australia Day: answers to tricky questions
      • What's the fuss about Jan 26?
      • Mabo and Native Title
      • Busting the myth of peaceful settlement
    • our-cultures-lg.webp Our Cultures
      • Overview
      • Why are culture and identity important?
      • First Nations kinship
      • Aboriginal spirituality
      • The importance of land
      • Welcome to and Acknowledgement of Country
      • Bob's story
      • Culture and Identity activity
    • my-response-lg.webp My Response
      • Overview
      • What can I do?
      • Connecting locally with First Nations communities
      • Attending First-Nations-led events
      • Fiona's story
      • Mark's story
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    • Building Confidence Course
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    • Language and Terminology Toolkit
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Doug's story
Racism has been a constant part of Uncle Doug’s life. He grew up on Cherbourg Aboriginal Reserve in Queensland in the 1930s.
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Separation – Ruth's story
Ruth arrived at Cherbourg mission when she was six and a half months old. It was during the Depression and Ruth’s mother had taken her parents to Cherbourg where she was told they’d be cared for.
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Losing home – Iris's story
Iris remembers a man arriving at her home on Cherbourg Reserve when she was 12 years old. He announced that in two days, a truck would arrive to take Iris, her mother and siblings to a house in the community.
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Miliwanga's story
“It (the Intervention) has taken away our dignity and our identity,” Miliwanga says. “We used to have a Council of Elders in our community … people were well aware that if they did something wrong we would have this council solve it for us …
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Mark's story
When Mark started listening to First Nations people's accounts of our shared Australian history, he was shocked. “This is where I’ve grown up my whole life,” he says, admitting that, “Here I am, a 28 year old guy, and I’d never heard these stories.”
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Bob's story
Bob will never know the full extent of the cultural heritage that was erased when his grandfather was taken from an Aboriginal mission and placed in a boys’ home at the age of 12.
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Stolen wages – Iris's story
Iris grew up on Cherbourg Reserve in Queensland. “At the age of 15–16 the government organised for you to work as a domestic woman,” she explains.
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Fiona's story
Like many people living in Australia, Fiona didn't know much about First Nations people beyond the stereotypes portrayed by the media.
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Maggie's story
Maggie was only six when she first experienced prejudice. But despite her young age, what Maggie experienced was, and is, commonplace for many First Nations people throughout Australia.
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