New vision for stolen generations home

A former children’s  home  for stolen generation children in Perth is to be repurposed as a place of truth and healing.

Sister Kate’s children’s home was founded by Sister Kate Clutterbuck  in 1932.

Designed to be a place for children in need, the plan was hijacked by AO Neville, the then legal guardian for every Aboriginal child in the State, who in 1944 embarked on a racist policy of removing lighter-skinned children  from their families to raise them as white.

Sister Kate Clutterbuck founded the home in 1932.

Now a partnership of three organisations will see the site in Perth’s south-east support initiatives related to truth telling and healing from forced child removal policies.

“We need to be reminded of what it was — an experimental place for quadroons,” Jim Morrison, chair of Yokai, the West Australian Stolen Generations Aboriginal Corporation, told  the ABC.