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Whitewashed

Australia, 1983
film

Examines the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and their placement in foster homes with white parents, the effect upon the children and the c..

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They took the children away: Aboriginal family experience

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Australia, 1991
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With the best of intentions

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Child welfare

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Lousy Little Sixpence

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Close to Slavery: Black Work in White History

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Broken white line

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Finding the way home

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Two different worlds

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Terra Nullius

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