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I never received any money from my employers or the Protection Board. I didnot know what money was.Confidential submission 331, Queensland: child removed at 3 years in 1915.When anybody come to pick up a worker they used to line us up and they’d makeyou flex your muscles. If you were big and strong they’d pick you – like a slavemarket. I was sent out at 11. I worked there for seven and a half years, never gotpaid anything, all that time. We used to bring the cattle in ... we didn’t getnothing. So I had to join the army to survive.Confidential evidence 549, Northern Territory: man removed in the 1930s.MillicentAt the age of four, I was taken away from my family and placed in Sister Kate’s Home –Western Australia where I was kept as a ward of the state until I was eighteen years old. I wasforbidden to see any of my family or know of their whereabouts. Five of us D. children were alltaken and placed in different institutions in WA. The Protector of Aborigines and the ChildWelfare Department in their ‘Almighty Wisdom’ said we would have a better life and futurebrought up as whitefellas away from our parents in a good religious environment. All theycontributed to our upbringing and future was an unrepairable scar of loneliness, mistrust, hatredand bitterness. Fears that have been with me all of life. The empty dark and lonely existencewas so full of many hurtful and unforgivable events, that I cannot escape from no matter how