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'...As I was growing up, being abused was a natural thing in the home. I got into trouble because I tore me dress and I had to wear a potato bag dress for a week. The most abused that, in the home was mostly being whipped by – whipped with the wire, you know, the leather strap wrapped around it. They usually hit you with that. And then you'd be thrown into the box room. And then the deputy maiden, she was cruel, she used to hit me over the head a lot. I used to cop that a lot. As I was growing up. But then you know, you don't think of those sort of things as abuse. You think it’s just a natural that that’s life...' (Transcribed from the Stolen Generations' Testimonies website)
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- Cabbage Tree Bay, Gold Coast, Queensland,
- Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls' Training Home, Cootamundra - Young - Harden area, Southeastern NSW, New South Wales,
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