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Joyce Maher (Tapakari), with Bernadette and Roderick, 1960

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Black and white image of an Aboriginal woman with a young child sitting on her shoulders and a baby in a sling cradled in her arm. The woman appears to be kneeling, but the image is cropped at her hips and she may be standing.

'A station hand's wife and young family: Tapakari (Joyce Maher) with Bernadette (1½ years) and Roderick (3 mths). The eldest son, Raymond, aged 14 works on a station. The second son died at Norseman Mission. The low wages for Aborigines enables institutions to remove their children.'

Source: Box 12/6, Council for Aboriginal Rights (Vic.) Papers, MS 12913, State Library of Victoria. Photograph published with the permission of Ms Bernadette Maher.

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Social Service benefits, 1954-64