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The white girl

by Tony Birch

Set in 1960s rural Australia, an Aboriginal grandmother seeks to protect her granddaughter from government authorities during an era of state-sanctioned removal of Indigenous children from their families.

Accession 20427 ISBN 9780702260384 Publisher University of Queensland Press
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