KCP - Catholic Diocese of Broome

Sister Dorothy Fuller, one of 'The Separated Children' visits her country : Here is her story:
My name is Sr. Dorothy Fuller. I was born on Ord River Station and lived on Newry Station with my mother and family. I was taken away from Newry Station when I was seven years old. The pilot came and flew me to Alice Springs and waiting at the airstrip was a gentleman named John O'Keefe, an Irishman. He brought me to Bangalow where I lived with him and his wife who was the Matron of Alice Springs Hospital. I stayed there for a few years and went to school in Alice Springs. I was happy there and they were very good to me. I kept in touch with them through the years.
From Alice I was taken to Melville Island with seven other girls from around Alice Springs. On Melville, the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Sisters and the M.S.C. Fathers and Brothers ran the Mission. It was there that I did the rest of my schooling and where I thought of becoming a Sister. The Lord led me to Papua New Guinea to the local nuns where I did my training to become a Sister of The Handmaids of Our Lord.

I was involved in teaching in Papua New Guinea for almost twenty years. In 1974 the Sisters opened a place in Cairns and I taught religion in the State and Catholic schools as well as being a Pastoral worker. In 1993 I was transferred to Melville Island and was working for the government. I became a co-ordinator for the Alcohol Awareness and Family Recovery Programme. I was also involved in teaching Religion. In 2004 I was transferred to Cairns where I am involved in parish ministry.
For forty three years of my life I had no contact with my mother or family. I didn't know what happened to them and they didn't know what happened to me. In the late eighties, a Sister of the Sacred Heart was travelling around giving talks in various places. She was going to Kununurra and I told her about my mother and asked her if she could ask around for Gypsy in the hope that someone might remember her. She made enquiries and discovered my mother was still alive and living in Kununurra at the back of the Sisters' house. She quickly got in touch with me to tell me the good news. My Congregation gave me three months to come and sit down here with my mother and my family. From then on I came regularly to visit her. She passed away on 3rd. September 1999. I was here for her funeral. This is my first trip back since my mother's death.
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