The Life of Indigenous Australian Children.
The children in the institutions were the most neglected children in Australia. Many had to
sleep in dormitories with about nineteen to twenty-five other girls in each of dormitory. If any
of the girls wet the bed, she would get her nose rubbed in the wet sheet and then receive a
beating. The food they ate was so bad that sometimes the meat was infested with maggots.
They were not supplied with shoes; in order to keep their feet warm; children would jump into
the cow dung. In Kinchela Boys' Home, which was based in New South Wales, the boys often
suffered sexual and physical abuse.
Often the white people would send Aboriginal women out into the white community, and if
they came back pregnant, the rule was to keep each woman for two years and then take the
child away; sometimes mother and child would never see each other again. The white society
thought it would be in the best interest of the child to remove her from the corrupting
influence of her Aboriginal family
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