they battled racist government policies to save our family

  • Written by: Sabah Rind, Lecturer, Centre for Aboriginal Studies, Curtin University
they battled racist government policies to save our familyCamels on Nullabor (at bottom right) supplied by State Library of South Australia B-7953. Other images are family photographs, supplied by author.

I am one of 400 descendants of a Baloch-Afghan cameleer man, Goolam Badoola, and an Aboriginal Badimiya Yamitji woman, Mariam Martin.

As I share these stories told to me by my Elders, I pray they are used...

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