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[Powderworks] Re: Longer Walk Home (NMOC)

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This might answer a few questions about the Aboriginal 'policy'; others coul=
d=20
be resolved through clicking through on the links.
This was indeed a stunning film - and frankly, I don't think it could even=20
have been made in the first place without people like the Oils (and who else=
=20
WAS there, really?) making so much noise about the issue.

Tears of joy as Aborigine exile sees family
By Barbie Dutter in Sydney
(Filed: 04/03/2003)=20

An aboriginal woman removed from her parents under Australia's infamous=20
assimilation policy and taken to England as an infant more than 30 years ago=
=20
has returned to her homeland for a reunion with tribal relatives.

Neila Penny, who now lives in Folkestone, Kent, was welcomed at Perth airpor=
t=20
by a crowd of 40 family members she has never known.

She was among tens of thousands of children separated from their families an=
d=20
forcibly integrated into white society under a government policy highlighted=
=20
recently in <A HREF=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;$sessionid=
$3OQZNVGPAOPW3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/arts/2002/09/04/bfabor04.xml">the f=
ilm Rabbit-Proof Fence.</A>

The film is set in her home state, Western Australia, where the child remova=
l=20
policy, one of the darkest episodes in Australia's history, was applied with=
=20
particular zeal.

Miss Penny, 36, left Australia in the late 1960s when her adoptive parents=20
emigrated to Britain. She is the first person to benefit from a state=20
government initiative to help reunite members of the "stolen generations"=20
with blood relatives. Miss Penny's natural parents are dead, but her four=20
sisters and two brothers, along with aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and=20
nephews, all from the Nyoongar tribe, gathered to greet her at the airport i=
n=20
Perth.

"I've waited a long time for this. I'm overwhelmed, ecstatic, happy,=20
emotional," said Miss Penny, who considers herself neither British nor=20
Australian but Aboriginal.

Asked if she believed she had been stolen, she replied light-heartedly:=20
"Yeah, I do, because I've been taken from my homeland and I have had to live=
=20
in rainy, cold, freezing England." She said her adoptive family had never=20
sought to conceal any details of her background from her, but she had only=20
realised the importance of her heritage in recent years.

Miss Penny was contacted in 1997 by her cousin, Fred Penny, who had promised=
=20
her father shortly before his death that he would find her.

They corresponded regularly and his visit to Kent last December persuaded he=
r=20
to make the two-week trip, during which she will visit her parents' graves.

 <A HREF=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;$sessionid$3OQZNVGPAO=
PW3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/arts/2002/09/04/bfabor04.xml">4 September 2002=
[Arts]: The long walk home</A>=20
 <A HREF=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$3OQZNVGPAO=
PW3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/news/2002/09/03/waus03.xml">3 September 2002:=20=
Aboriginals sue Crown over loss of their land</A>=20
 <A HREF=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$3OQZNVGPAO=
PW3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/news/2001/07/13/wabor13.xml">13 July 2001: Dic=
tionary gives hope to Aborigines</A>=20

External links =A0=20
=A0=20
 <A HREF=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/exit.jhtml?exit=3Dhttp://apology=
.west.net.au/">Apology Australia - Anthony Shipley</A>=20
=A0=20
 <A HREF=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/exit.jhtml?exit=3Dhttp://www.aus=
tlii.edu.au/au/orgs/car/">Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation</A>=20
=A0=20
 <A HREF=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/exit.jhtml?exit=3Dhttp://www.ats=
ic.gov.au/">Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission</A>=20

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A3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/news/2003/03/04/wabor04.xml&sSheet=3D/news/2003=
/03/04/ixworld.html">
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$YZRPBLGRI2RA3QFIQMFCFG=
GAV

CBQYIV0?xml=3D/news/2003/03/04/wabor04.xml&sSheet=3D/news/2003/03/04/ixworld=
.html</A>






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LANG=3D"0">This might answer a few questions about the Aboriginal 'policy';=20=
others could be resolved through clicking through on the links.<BR>
This was indeed a stunning film - and frankly, I don't think it could even h=
ave been made in the first place without people like the Oils (and who else=20=
WAS there, really?) making so much noise about the issue.<BR>
<BR>
<B>Tears of joy as Aborigine exile sees family</B><BR>
By Barbie Dutter in Sydney<BR>
<I>(Filed: 04/03/2003) </I><BR>
<BR>
An aboriginal woman removed from her parents under Australia's infamous assi=
milation policy and taken to England as an infant more than 30 years ago has=
 returned to her homeland for a reunion with tribal relatives.<BR>
<BR>
Neila Penny, who now lives in Folkestone, Kent, was welcomed at Perth airpor=
t by a crowd of 40 family members she has never known.<BR>
<BR>
She was among tens of thousands of children separated from their families an=
d forcibly integrated into white society under a government policy highlight=
ed recently in <A HREF=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;$sessio=
nid$3OQZNVGPAOPW3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/arts/2002/09/04/bfabor04.xml">th=
e film Rabbit-Proof Fence.</A><BR>
<BR>
The film is set in her home state, Western Australia, where the child remova=
l policy, one of the darkest episodes in Australia's history, was applied wi=
th particular zeal.<BR>
<BR>
Miss Penny, 36, left Australia in the late 1960s when her adoptive parents e=
migrated to Britain. She is the first person to benefit from a state governm=
ent initiative to help reunite members of the "stolen generations" with bloo=
d relatives. Miss Penny's natural parents are dead, but her four sisters and=
 two brothers, along with aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews, all fr=
om the Nyoongar tribe, gathered to greet her at the airport in Perth.<BR>
<BR>
"I've waited a long time for this. I'm overwhelmed, ecstatic, happy, emotion=
al," said Miss Penny, who considers herself neither British nor Australian b=
ut Aboriginal.<BR>
<BR>
Asked if she believed she had been stolen, she replied light-heartedly: "Yea=
h, I do, because I've been taken from my homeland and I have had to live in=20=
rainy, cold, freezing England." She said her adoptive family had never sough=
t to conceal any details of her background from her, but she had only realis=
ed the importance of her heritage in recent years.<BR>
<BR>
Miss Penny was contacted in 1997 by her cousin, Fred Penny, who had promised=
 her father shortly before his death that he would find her.<BR>
<BR>
They corresponded regularly and his visit to Kent last December persuaded he=
r to make the two-week trip, during which she will visit her parents' graves=
.<BR>
<BR>
<IMG  SRC=3D"http://www.telegraph.=
co.uk/arts/main.jhtml;$sessionid$3OQZNVGPAOPW3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/art=
s/2002/09/04/bfabor04.xml">4 September 2002[Arts]: The long walk home</A></B=
></B> <BR>
<IMG  SRC=3D"http://www.telegraph.=
co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$3OQZNVGPAOPW3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/new=
s/2002/09/03/waus03.xml">3 September 2002: Aboriginals sue Crown over loss o=
f their land</A></B></B> <BR>
<IMG  SRC=3D"http://www.telegraph.=
co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$3OQZNVGPAOPW3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/new=
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<IMG  SRC=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.=
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nthony Shipley</A> <BR>
=A0 <BR>
<IMG  SRC=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.=
uk/news/exit.jhtml?exit=3Dhttp://www.austlii.edu.au/au/orgs/car/">Council fo=
r Aboriginal Reconciliation</A> <BR>
=A0 <BR>
<IMG  SRC=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.=
uk/news/exit.jhtml?exit=3Dhttp://www.atsic.gov.au/">Aboriginal and Torres St=
rait Islander Commission</A> <BR>
<BR>
<A HREF=3D"http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$YZRPBLGRI2R=
A3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/news/2003/03/04/wabor04.xml&sSheet=3D/news/2003=
/03/04/ixworld.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$Y=
ZRPBLGRI2RA3QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=3D/news/2003/03/04/wabor04.xml&amp;sShee=
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