From Patrons to Partners
and the Separated Children of the Kimberley
A History of the Catholic Church in the Kimberley, WA
is now available for $29.95 + postage.
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From Patrons to Partners and the Separated Children of the Kimberley is a new, extended edition of the History of the Catholic Church in the Kimberley which was first published in 1994. The original edition traced the first hundred years of the interwoven story of the European missionaries and the Aboriginal people of the Kimberley from 1884.
For the new book., the author, Margaret Zucker, has interviewed people and relatives of "the stolen generation", who were separated from their families as young children and were brought up and educated at the Missions in Beagle Bay and Broome.
Their stories, and the stories of the Sisters who looked after them, form a major part of the new section in the second edition.
The author recounts the acknowledgement of the effects of these Government and Church policies and the apologies from the Bishop of Broome and the various religious orders through the 1996 Bringing Them Home National Inquiry. She also documents the various parliamentary responses to the Inquiry.