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O'Donoghue now stolen again

Stolen Generations Alliance co-patron Lowitja O'Donoghue in 2001 admitted to me she wasn't actually "stolen", after all, but was given away by her father:

"(My father) didn't want to be straddled with five kids," the former Australian of the Year said, sobbing. "I haven't forgiven him... "I don't like the word 'stolen' and it's perhaps true that I've used the word loosely at times... I would see myself as a removed child, and not necessarily stolen." Asked whether it would be better to state clearly that she wasn't a member of the stolen generation, Dr O'Donoghue said: "I am prepared to make that concession."
Those of us of the stolen generations...

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