Marjorie Woodrow was removed from her family when she was just a child of two years.
She would not see her mother again for over 68 years.
Marjorie was one of 11,500 Indegenous people stretching from Perth to the Torres Straits Islands, many of them part of the stolen generations, forcibly removed from their parents 'for their own good'.
On leaving school, people like Marjorie were often given into domestic service.
At fourteen she was set to work as a domestic servant for a wealthy Australian family for four years. She had no choice, she was indentured, to all intents and purposes she was a slave.
She was paid five pounds in those four years, the rest of her wages were kept on her behalf, in trust, because they were people like Marjorie were not deemed capable of coping with money.
On coming of age, Marjorie lived with her husband and her eight children in a tent for seven years.
She never did get paid for the years of her service, and if she had,might have been able to pay for the medication for one of her children that perished while living in that tent that was her families home for seven years.
Marjorie is not alone, some 11,500 others are all owed moneys which was put into trust for them.
The money disappeared.
Now people like Marjorie are lobbying the Australian government for the return of the money that they had earned, the money that they were robbed of, for they were not considered capable of handling it themselves.
That duty was given to those that would eventually fleece them of it.
It is estimated that anything between 12 and 70 milllon dollars are owed to these people for the years of their slavery and deprivation, let alone compensation for destruction of their families.
It is a drop in the ocean for those that have grown fat of the indentured labour of others.
Yet the government in Australia is offering a paltry four thousand dollars compensation per person.
Marjorie finally found her mother living in the old Murrin Bridge settlement near Lake Cargelligo in New South Wales in 1994.
On the same day that I discovered this sad story, it was interesting to find out that some $50 billion Australian dollars have been earmarked for spending on the 'Defence Capability Plan'
This will protect Australia from ICBM missile attacks from an unspecified threat.
Marjorie lives in a damp flat, struggling to get by on her pension.
Stories like Marjories are sadly quite common, but there are signs that things are changing, because those stories are now finally being told.
And Australians are finally listening.
yechydda,