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Finished tonight. What an amazing and colourful man he is. He has overcome so much from being stolen to being in jail more the 20 times!

To begin tomorrow night

The tale of the charismatic Jack Charles‘ life. This was eye opening to me, teaching me a bit more of the history of our nation and the trauma suffered by the stolen generation - he was jailed as a teenager simply for seeking out other aboriginal people and discovering that he was not an orphan (as he had been told by every authority in his life). To hear it read in his own compelling voice was an added bonus.

Uncle Jack Charles is an absolute legend. Removed from his mother as a young baby and raised in an institution in Melbourne, the only Aboriginal child there.

Australia has so far to go in righting wrongs done to the first people of this land. Thank goodness we are hearing more and more of their stories.

Devastating, fascinating and life-affirming. 🖤💛❤️

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Can‘t get much more Australian than this bloke @CarolynM 😁.

And @Rissreads & I are going to see Clare Coleman talk about her new book The Old Lie.

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