Yoorrook Justice Commission told police abduction of Aboriginal children ‘destroyed our families’

Children of late Gunditjmara elder and activist recount mother’s ordeal to Victorian truth-telling inquiry

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Eunice Wright was nine years old when she and her siblings were snatched from their home by police and thrown in a cell for the night.

With her mother in hospital with tuberculosis and father away at work, the wider family rallied to have the children returned, but instead they became members of the stolen generation.

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