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An Indigenous man in a black jacket looks at the camera.

Two men speaking together.

"We had abuse — physical, sexual and mental abuse — all of us, including myself,"
he said.

A sign reads at a former Cherbourg mission reads "Boys Dormitory".

"We had no secure lock-down, so anyone could have come in, cut our throats or whatever."

A sign that says entry to the reserve is only permitted with the superintendent's authority.

"When you got no love shown to you as a child and you are living in that type of residence, it's any wonder people come out traumatised."

a man writing on official Path to Treaty documents.

"It's also important that there are changes to the curriculum to show the history of Australia in relation to First Nations people."

An elderly woman in a red headscarf stands in front of a wall of family photos

A building at Cherbourg.

"They just take your mum, they took everybody's mum, we had no mothers, nothing at all,"
Aunty Ruth said.

 A sign over the front gates reads "Cherbourg: state Aboriginal settlement".

"Well, I did that every night … pushed that blooming dressing table over to make sure they couldn't get in."

"That's why a lot of girls came back pregnant, that's why I came back pregnant. Because you couldn't say no, you couldn't scream out because you would get punished."

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