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Payout for aborigine

Coorong (Australia): Clutching a mug of tea, Bruce Trevorrow is sitting on a picnic bench in the beautiful national park of The Coorong, a place of wetlands, saltpans and vast skies. He is talking about his parents, Joe and Thora, both dead, and his childhood. It is not a happy tale but one of prejudice, cruelty and loss. He was born near here, a member of the aboriginal Ngarrindjeri people, but did not grow up here. His childhood and his identity as an aborigine were snatched from him as one of Australia’s so-called Stolen Generation. This week Mr. Trevorrow (50), won a landmark compensation claim in the South Australian Supreme Court, the first payment of its kind. A judge awarded him $525,000 (Australia), acknowledging that he had been “falsely imprisoned by the state”. — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2007

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