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Buried lives

Possible clandestine burials have been detected at a notorious institution of the stolen generations era. Survivors of institutions across NSW and Western Australia are calling for the search for other missing Aboriginal children to be widened, to uncover these buried lives.

26 July 2024

  • An aerial view of the old Kinchela Boys Home outside Kempsey, NSW, Australia

    NSW boys home grounds to be explored after possible ‘clandestine’ human burial sites revealed

    Government move to engage archaeological specialists comes after ‘suspicious’ locations identified at Kinchela Aboriginal institution

25 January 2024

  • The NSW government is funding investigations into possible clandestine burials at the Stolen Generations institutions the Kinchela boys’ home, Cootamundra girls’ home and Bomaderry infants’ home

    NSW government funds investigations into possible clandestine burials at three Stolen Generations sites

    Search widens beyond Kinchela boys’ home to include Cootamundra girls’ home and Bomaderry infants’ home

22 September 2023

  • Kath Travis

    A Melbourne office held vital records of Aboriginal children’s homes. How did they go missing?

    When the United Aborigines Mission wound up in 2020, boxes of records disappeared – leaving stolen generations survivors with agonising questions

13 September 2023

  • Chris Minns speaking to the media outdoors

    Chris Minns open to funding investigation into possible secret graves at Kinchela Aboriginal boys’ home

    Labor vows to take further action if potential burial sites at other stolen generations-era institutions are uncovered

11 September 2023

  • From left, James Michael 'Widdy' Welsh #36, Uncle Richard "Bear" Campbell #28, Uncle Roger "Pigeon" Jarrett #12, Uncle Allan Roosevelt "Boomp" Cooper # 4, and Uncle Robert "Bullfrog" Young #24 at Kinchela Boys Home, Kinchela, NSW, Australia

    The secret graves of the Stolen Generations – Full Story podcast

    Lorena Allam and Sarah Collard on why survivors of a notorious institution are calling for an urgent investigation into possible clandestine graves

9 September 2023

  • Child residents of Carrolup Native Settlement, Western Australia, Australia, circa 1916, contrasted with Carrolup/Marribank Aboriginal Mission in Western Australia, Australia.

    Hundreds of Aboriginal children likely buried in unmarked graves at three WA missions

  • Howard Riley stands in front of a dilapidated 1940s Chevrolet ambulance, which would have transported sick or dead people at Moore River mission in Western Australia

    ‘Those kids belong to somebody’: elders demand truth about unmarked Aboriginal graves

8 September 2023

  • NSW Liberal MP Leslie Williams

    Kinchela Aboriginal boys’ home: NSW premier urged to fund investigation into possible secret graves

    Opposition says Chris Minns’ government should meet survivors’ request for further searches of the former site of a Stolen Generations institution near Kempsey

7 September 2023

  • Kinchela Voices

    Beaten, abused, bullied, starved: stories of survival of Kinchela Aboriginal boys’ home

  • The minister for Indigenous Australians, Linda Burney

    Linda Burney calls for investigation into possible secret burial sites at Stolen Generations institution

  • Roger 'Pigeon' Jarrett and Richard 'Bear' Campbell spent their formative years in one of the most violent and abusive institutions of the Stolen Generations era

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    'I became number 12': survivors of Kinchela boys' home share their stories – video

  • Ground-penetrating radar technology is a noninvasive means of detecting potential human remains. At least nine ‘suspicious’ sites of possible graves have been identified at the former government-run Kinchela Aboriginal Boys’ Training Home using GDR.

    Ground-penetrating radar: how the discovery of ‘clandestine’ anomalies could reveal buried truths

  • Who are the Stolen Generations and what has happened to them?

  • ‘Taken to hell’: even today survivors of Kinchela boys’ home are known by their numbers

  • Revealed: multiple sites of possible secret graves discovered at Stolen Generations institution for children

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