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Living under the ‘protection’ of the Aborigines Welfare Board in the 1960s was a very hard road to travel. In
The White Girl
Tony Birch uses the story of Odette Brown and her granddaughter Sissy to illustrate just how tough it was. I was taken aback to read of the ways in which the authorities were able to control the lives of Aboriginal people like Odette and Sissy in the unnamed Australian country town but marveled at their resilience and touching solidarity in the face of such unconscionab
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