At four, her head was shaved and her clothes burned. Aunty Lorraine doesn’t want her trauma to be forgotten

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May 25, 2026 - 15:10
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At four, her head was shaved and her clothes burned. Aunty Lorraine doesn’t want her trauma to be forgotten

The now 88-year-old is urging Australian governments to throw their support behind a new national plan for Stolen Generations survivors as they enter their final years

Aunty Lorraine Peeters only remembers the metal gates opening as she was driven away from her home, at Brewarrina mission in north-west New South Wales. She was taken, along with her brothers and sisters, at just four years old.

Her home for the next six years would be the Cootamundra Aboriginal Girls Home, where she was separated from her siblings, trained as a domestic servant and systematically brainwashed to be white. Continue reading...

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