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In the Interests of the Child

It was just a concrete floor, no beds, one big shed was built there, and a little bit of kitchen on one side, where the girls used to do the baking and that …

We used to get no mattress; only blankets to sleep on. We used to put all the stools up and we used to sleep on those concrete floors. Two or three girls would get together – no pillows, the concrete floor we slept on, you wouldn’t even let your dog sleep on it, it was so rough. Winter time it was freezing.

Emily Liddle, member of the Stolen Generations,
about the Bungalow, Darwin, Northern Territory,
in Rowena MacDonald, Between Two Worlds, Alice Springs, 1995

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