Exercise 2.11
Read the following source. It is an extract from a newspaper article
that was written in 1998.
The Cootamundra Girls’ Home was a notorious ‘training’ institution for
Aboriginal girls who had been taken from their families to be
“assimilated” into white society – mainly by grooming them to start work
as domestic servants at 15.
Source:
Jopson D, ‘Home ties’, Sydney Morning Herald, 19 May 1998, p 13.
The newspaper extract was written in 1998. It describes the
Cootamundra Girls’ Home that was in operation from 1911 until
1969. It is secondary evidence.
On your own paper, write a newspaper article as it would have
been written in 1911 about the opening of the Cootamundra
Training Home for Girls. Your article should be 4-6 paragraphs in
length and don’t forget to include a headline for the article.
This would be an excellent opportunity to use your computer
skills to produce the newspaper article.
Part 2
Aboriginal Peoples
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