Greg

Greg is born on Cape Barren. At the time he was taken the family comprised, her mom, sister, two brothers and her grand mother. He lived in a small isolated community, it was a very peaceful and loving community. He recalls spending the most of his childhood living in the home of his grandparents.

He was taken a day, were he was in school. It was morning and he was in the classroom. The schoolmaster comes, and after he had a conversation with somebody. After that he came to get Greg, the schoolmaster took him out to a motorbike held by the officer and driven to the airstrip. This happen in October 1959 and Greg was 12 years. He was placed in a family in Hobart. It was a good family, they look on him as their son. The family had self one daughter, but Mrs… used to care for foster children and the house was full of other non-Aboriginal children. Thirty years after he was taken he went back. He walked around the sand spit, he saw the school and the places where he used to live as a kid. He saw his life flashed, he collapsed in the sand and start crying. He wants to be a part of his family that he was taken from.
This is not a picture of Greg, but it looked like a Greg.

The reason for his removal was that’s his mother was a widow in a poor health. After he was taken his mother was in total despair. She get drinking and suffered a fatal accident, the police came and collect the other children. The first time after Greg was taken, where the siblings were together was in 1995.