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Wednesday 27th March 1998 Delegation visit Goolatri Media
 
Broome
Goolarri Media
The delegation was given a tour of the organization's facilities and a presentation of the requirements for establishing community media facilities was provided by Neil Turner. As part of their training programme Goolarri students were invited to interview Delegation members on tape.
 
Mamabulanjin Aboriginal Corporation
We were received by Director, Nolan Hunter, who explained the role of the centre in support of Aboriginal peoples. He made particular reference to the organisation's support for the homeland movement in which dislocated people are returning to their country. He invited David Francis to explain the background to the ‘stolen generation’. We were shocked to hear that in the period 1919 and 1972 between one in three and one in ten indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and communities and fostered out to institutions and non-aboriginal foster parents in an attempt to integrate the two communities. We watched a moving video tape, "Bringing them home" in which Sir Ronald Wilson, the Chairman of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families, described the process as "genocide". Madge Yu presents gift to Delegation
 
Jarndu Yawuru Aboriginal Corporation
We were invited to lunch at this women’s resource centre where they had the opportunity to look at their activities and talk with staff directly about their role in support of Aboriginal women. After lunch there was an exchange of gifts between Theresa Barker, Co-ordinator of Jarndu Yawuru and Dr Naomi Kipuri an Anthropologist from the Delegation. Madge Yu, Board Member of Jarndu Yawuru, then gave Matei Olle Timan MP a gift.
 
Kimberly Aboriginal Medical Service Centre and Broome Regional Aboriginal Medical Service
We were given a tour of these facilities and met people working there. We were impressed by the standard of health facility provided in Australia in relation to the sometimes rudimentary resources available to communities in Africa.
 
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