NSW Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Harris says he is working with survivors from the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home about the next steps following an archaeological search at the site.
abc.net.au/news/kinchela-boys-home-archaeological-search-confirmed-nsw-minister/102828232New South Wales Aboriginal Affairs Minister David Harris says he is aware of an archaeological search conducted at one of Australia's most notorious Aboriginal boys homes and is talking to survivors about the next steps.
WARNING: This story contains details that may be distressing for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readersKinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home, which closed in 1970, was notorious for neglect and abuse of Indigenous children The NSW Aboriginal Affairs office confirmed survivors of the home had requested a search of the groundsIn December 2021, the Murrumbidgee Archaeological Heritage Company was engaged by a group of Indigenous people who lived at the Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training Home, near Kempsey on the state's Mid North Coast, to conduct a search.A spokesperson for Mr Harris said a ground-penetrating radar search at the site had been completed.
The spokesperson said due to the highly sensitive nature of the findings, a report on the search was presented to the Kinchela Boys Home Aboriginal Corporation only., which has seen the report, today claimed at least nine "suspicious" sites of possible graves had been identified by the archaeological experts.
The news outlet claimed the report highlighted "high priority anomalies" in the ground at the home, which showed "signal patterns that in other contexts have proven to be human burials"."Fifteen years after the apology to the Stolen Generations, we are still coming to grips with our history," Ms Burnie said.
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