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How one family started to reckon with their part in Australia’s dark past
By Ellen Fanning
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Ellen Fanning was fascinated by the old photo she found in her grandmother’s album. (ABC News: Jack Fisher)
It was time to face the difficult truth about my family who lived on stolen land.
I had been looking at the photo for about eight years.
Two dark-skinned Aboriginal women. A laughing girl and a stern-looking matriarch. Both dressed in starched white maid uniforms, like plantation workers from America’s Deep South.
But this was the deep north — Longreach, Queensland, a century ago.
And the photo…
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