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1 1 y separately published work icon Placed in Our Care : Millie Shankelton, Missionary to Aborigines : Her Role in the Stolen Generation Story Douglas Brown , Stanhope Gardens : Eider Books , 2023 27643630 2023 single work biography 'Amelia Shankelton, born in 1902, was an Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM) missionary from 1927 to 1984. In 1996, Lorna Cubillo and her supporters initiated the 'Stolen Generations' test case in which she claimed that as a child, she was illegally removed from her family and placed in a cruel institution, the Retta Dixon Home in Darwin, presided over by Shankelton. Why did the Stolen Generations case fail? In this book explores statements made by Cubillo and other children brought up in Retta Dixon. He also examines the actions of Shankelton, members other staff, AIM head office, and government officials, empathising with people negotiating child welfare challenges in very different times, in places few people can now imagine.' 

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1 Dubious Sources Douglas Brown , 2017 single work essay
— Appears in: Quadrant , March vol. 61 no. 3 2017; (p. 89-90) 'Someone gave me, as a Christmas present, Mark Tedeschi’s book Murder at Myall Creek. It is not a bad read, though some things are left unexplained, and the book has no index. My criticism of the book arises from its somewhat dubious scholarship.' (Introduction)
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