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TELLING THEIR STORIES Bus operator CDC NSW has committed to a partnership in support of Australia’s Indigenous people’s ‘Stolen Generations truth telling’, with a new mobile education centre. WORDS FABIAN COTTER IMAGES CDC NSW
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n cementing its partnership with Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation (KBHAC) during its first KBHAC Mobile Education Centre (MEC) community visit post Covid-19, CDC NSW driver Mikhail Mikhail steered the MEC bus to a Healing Session at Aboriginal Health and Medical Research Council (AH&MRC) in Little Bay, where it was unveiled to a group of people who had experienced abuse at the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home (KBH), which closed in 1970, as well as AH&MRC staff. The MEC – a converted commuter bus nicknamed ‘Benny’ featuring an audio-visual system and printed historical information on Stolen Generations – is the first of its kind and integral to helping KBHAC members tell their stories in a range of locations, CDC NSW says. The MEC will be used as a tool of education for schools,
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