The Treatment of Australian Aboriginal children of age up to 18 years have been treated poorly by `white' Australians. They were treated as slaves and inferior beings in the early 1900s, they were taken away from their parents and placed in homes because their parents supposedly couldn't take proper care of them in the 1930s, and then to the 1960s where racial discrimination and prejudice was common. Sally Morgan's autobiography "My Place" contains the chronicles of the author, her mother, grandmother and great-uncle. The author's mother and grandmother were so ashamed of their half-caste aboriginal ethnicity that they shielded it from Sally and her siblings. Eventually Sally extracted the buried secrets of her family and these valuable primary sources provide important insights into the sometimes awful existence and treatment of the aboriginal children.

Sally's grandmother (Daisy or Talahue) was born in 1900 and began working on Corunna Downs station which...