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NEDA VANOVAC
September 21, 2014
From her birthplace at Banka Banka Station in central Australia in 1938 to Darwin’s Supreme Court on Monday morning, it has been a long walk to justice for Lorna Cubillo.
Ms Cubillo, 76, will be the first Northern Territory witness to give evidence at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which will focus for the next fortnight on the Retta Dixon home, where Ms Cubillo lived from 1947 to 1956.
The Territory government commissioned the Aborigines Inland Mission (AIM) to operate the home from 1946 to 1980 inside a building reclaimed from the Army occupation during the Second World War.
Wedged between the Bagot Aboriginal Hospital and the Bagot Aboriginal Reserve, about eight kilometres from Darwin’s CBD, the home’s residents were primarily part-Aboriginal children and some unmarried mothers and women.
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