At four, her head was shaved and her clothes burned. Aunty Lorraine doesn’t want her trauma to be forgotten
Aunty Lorraine Peeters, an 88-year-old survivor of the Stolen Generations, is calling on the Australian government to support a national plan for survivors. She recounts her traumatic childhood experience of being forcibly removed from her family and institutionalized.
Why it matters
It sheds light on the lasting intergenerational trauma caused by historical government policies toward Indigenous Australians.
The now 88-year-old is urging Australian governments to throw their support behind a new national plan for Stolen Generations survivors as they enter their final years Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Aunty Lorraine Peeters only remembers the metal gates opening as she was driven away from her home, at Brewarrina mission in north-west New South Wales. She was taken, along with her brothers and sisters, at just four years old. Her home for the next six years would be the Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls Home, where she was separated from her siblings, trained as a domestic servant and systematically brainwashed to be white. Continue reading...
The article focuses on social justice and historical grievances, which is a common focus of left-leaning editorial priorities.
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