The Guardian
UK · 2 hrs ago
✦ 78◉ Centre
At four, her head was shaved and her clothes burned. Aunty Lorraine doesn’t want her trauma to be forgotten
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Aunty Lorraine Peeters, an 88-year-old Stolen Generations survivor in Australia, is advocating for government support of a national plan to assist Stolen Generations survivors in their final years, drawing from her traumatic experience of being forcibly removed from her family at age four.
At four, her head was shaved and her clothes burned. Aunty Lorraine doesn’t want her trauma to be forgotten
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
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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
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