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aged between 6 months and 7 years.]The baby started crying so I went and got my uncle to come and watch the kids until Iwalked in town to look for my parents. The town was about 15 ks so I left the campand walked through the bush. I wouldn’t walk along the main Highway because I wasscared someone might murder me or take me away. I got into town just before darkand this Koori woman who I didn’t know asked me was I looking for my parents. Isaid yes. She said they got a ride out to the camp with some people. That’s how Imissed them because I wasn’t walking on the highway.She said to me what are you going to do now. I said I’m going to walk back to thecamp. She said it’s getting dark, you can’t walk out there now. You better come andstay with us and go back out tomorrow. I said OK. I trusted this Koori woman whom Ididn’t know. She gave me a meal and a bed.The next day I thought and knew that my parents would be upset with me for leavingthe kids but I knew they would be alright because they were with Mum’s brother.While I was walking through the bush the police and Welfare were going out to thecamp which they had found in the bush. I was so upset that I didn’t walk along theHighway. That way the Welfare would have seen me.The next day I knew …The next day I knew that the Welfare had taken my brothers and sisters. This ladywho I stayed with overnight: her brother came that morning and told her the Welfarehad taken the kids to the homes. She called me aside and said, babe it’s no good ofyou going out to the camp today because the Welfare has taken your brothers andsisters away to the homes. I started crying and said to her no I have to go back to thecamp to see for myself. She got her brother and sister to take me out there and I justcouldn’t stop crying. All I could see was our little camp. My baby brother’s bottle waslaying on the ground. And I could see where my brother and sisters were makingmud pies in a Sunshine milk tin that we used for our tea or soup. I didn’t know wheremy parents were.I was sad crying lost …I was sad crying lost didn’t know what I was going to do. I wished I had of walkedalong the Highway so my brothers and sisters would have seen me and told theWelfare just so I would have been with them.Eventually I found my parents in Lakes Entrance. They were shattered upset crying