1990, pb, 155pp, 240x170mm,
b/w photos,
RRP $21.95 incl. GST

ISBN (10)
0 85575 208 4

ISBN (13)
978 0 85575 208 8

Take this Child
From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children’s home
CUMMINGS, Barbara

Availability: Out of Print; Electronic book format pending

Take this Child provides an account of the institutionalisation of ‘part-Aboriginal’ people in the Northern Territory from the early 1900s to the 1980s. Focusing on the Kahlin Compound and the Retta Dixon Children’s Home, it includes a detailed analysis of the  prevailing social and political forces as well as the views of those who actually grew up under this system.