STOLEN AWAY
Truth Session For CommunityCredits
Project Credits
Project Lead |
Professor Reena Tiwari (Curtin University: Stolen Generations Immersive Hub – SGIH) |
Virtual Reality Truth-Telling Partners |
Lotterywest National Healing Foundation |
Project Ideation |
Professor Reena Tiwari (SGIH) Dr Dean Chan (SGIH) |
Project Manager |
Dr Penny O’Connor (SGIH) |
Technology Manager |
Wesley Lamont (SGIH) |
Immersive Environment development |
Wesley Lamont (SGIH) Rozhan Taha (SGIH) Cameron Whiting (Curtin: School of Design and the Built Environment) |
Website development |
Nathon Webber (Nathon Webber Design) Wesley Lamont (SGIH) |
Cultural and Psychological consultation |
Donna Hensen — Wiradjuri & Wailwan (Donna Hensen Consultancy) Emeritus Professor Judie Atkinson — Jiman & Bundjalung Joyleen Koolmatrie — Kayteyte & Nyranderrji Michelle Broun — Yindjibarndi Roger Turvey — Whadjuk & Baladonia (Core Working Group) Gail Yorkshire — Wudjari & Noongar (Core Working Group) Timothy Flowers — Goreng & Noongar (Core Working Group) Garry Ryder — Ballardong & Noongar (Core Working Group) Tony ‘Tonji’ Hansen — Wardandi & Pibleman + Wilman / Goreng & Kaneang (Core Working Group) |
Production Credits
Narration |
Trevor Jamieson — Pitjantjara & Kukatja & Noongar (Introduction) Uncle Dr Jim Morrison — Minang & Goreng (Mogumber Introduction, Carrolup Introduction, Conclusion, Mogumber VR,) Fred Penny — Noongar (Wandering Introduction) Timothy Flowers — Goreng & Noongar (Conclusion) |
Mogumber / Moore River Mission
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Jennifer Mogridge — Yued & Watjarri Lewis Wallam — Noongar Dianne Mippy — Yued Len Ogilvie — Noongar Helen Corbett — Yinggarda & Bibbulman Stephanie Mippy — Yued & Noongar Helen Corbett — Yinggarda & Bibbulman |
Wandering Mission
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Fred Penny — Noongar Donald Thorne — Noongar Anonymised Survivors / Mission kids |
Marribank / Carrolup Mission
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Timothy Flowers — Goreng & Noongar Maisie Weston — Noongar, Wagyl & Kaip Garry Ryder — Ballardong & Noongar Ezzard Flowers — Goreng & Wirlomin Tony ‘Tonji’ Hansen — Wardandi & Pibleman + Wilman / Goreng & Kaneang Dorothy Bagshaw — Noongar Edith De Giambattista — Bibblemun & Kaneang Maree De Giambattista — Bibblemun & Kaneang Garry Ryder — Ballardong & Noongar |
Strength and Resilience Yarning |
Fred Penny — Noongar Donald Thorne — Noongar Timothy Flowers — Goreng & Noongar Garry Ryder — Ballardong & Noongar Gail Yorkshire — Wudjari & Noongar Tony ‘Tonji’ Hansen – Wardandi & Pibleman + Wilman / Goreng & Kaneang |
Content creation / editing |
Reena Tiwari (SGIH) Nikhil Cherian (SGIH) Wesley Lamont (SGIH) Penny O’Connor (SGIH) Rozhan Taha (SGIH) Emeritus Professor Steve Mickler (Curtin: School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry) Casey Mulder — Ballardong & Noongar |
Videography and Editing |
Atlas Film Studios Brad Coleman |
Acknowledgements |
The Stolen Generations Immersive Hub wishes to acknowledge the following organisations: BHP for funding the MissionsConnect project that created the VR of Carrolup/Marribank DELL for donating computing hardware |
Content Credits
Library Board of Western Australia
Images sourced from the collections of the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA), have been reproduced with the permission of the Library Board of Western Australia
Garry Ryder Collection
mages of Marribank have been reproduced with the permission of Garry Ryder
National Library of Australia
– Western Australian Aborigines Act 1905
– A O Neville (1948?) Australia’s coloured minority: it’s place in the community, Currawong Publishing Co Ltd, Sydney
Healing Foundation
The extract of the Map of Stolen Generations Institutions was reproduced with the permission of the Healing Foundation
Google Earth – ©Google, Airbus, Maxar Technologies 2025
The embedded satellite imagery pertaining to each of the mission sites come from Google and their affiliated third-party data providers. These have been reproduced under Google’s fair use principles and acknowledged in accordance with Google’s attribution requirements
Fred Penny Collection
Images of Wandering have been reproduced with the permission of Fred Penny
Song“Wandering back to Wandering” has been used with permission of Fred Penny
Gail Yorkshire Collection
Artworks have been reproduced with permission of Gail Yorkshire
SGIH Collection
Images used with permission of Stolen Generation Immersive Hub and it’s team members
State Records Office of WA
Images have been reproduced courtesy of the State Records Office of WA
Introduction |
❶ 217084PD: Large group of children, 193-? ❶ 134343PD: Marribank Mission, January 1958 ❶ 226017PD: Children at Moore River Native Settlement, 1930s ❶ 134350PD: Gnowangerup Mission, January 1958 ❸ Aborigines Act 1905 ❸ Three generations photo — A.O.Neville (1948) ❸ First Cross photo — A.O.Neville (1948) ❸ Three quadroon photo — A.O.Neville (1948) ❸ A.O. Neville Portrait ❶ 217091PD: Children at Carrolup, 194-? ❶ BA368/5/21: Child residents of Carrolup Native Settlement, Western Australia, ca. 1916. ❻ Boys making a vegetable garden ❶ BA368/5/1: Ethel and William Fryer with school children at Carrolup Native Settlement, 1916. ❶ Shows small group of very young children drinking from cups – bare feet and rough conditions – 1950 ❶ BA1340/ERA5/7D: Morning tea at the Mt Margaret Mission Kindergarten, 1950 ❶ 070717PD: Child residents of Carrolup, between 1915 and 1951. ❸ A.O. Neville Quote in Canberra in 1937 ❸ A.O. Neville Quote in Canberra in 1937 ❹ Healing Foundation Missions Map ❶ 134346PD: Marribank Mission, January 1958 ❷ Dining Hall Interior Boys Table |
Mogumber / Moore River Mission |
❺ Satellite Map Images |
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❶ 004868D: Moore River Settlement Hospital, 1920 ❶ Residents of Moore River Native Settlement gathered outside a stone building ❶ BA3039/3/392: Kindergarten, Moore River Native Settlement, ca. 1949 ❶ BA3039/3/394: Renovated kindergarten interior, Moore River Native Settlement, ca. 1949. |
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Wandering Mission |
❺ Satellite Map Images |
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❽ Untitled Landscape Painting – Mission Building Assessment Report Doc of Apr 2017 prepared by DBE students; pg 65, Fig 2.26.2 |
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❽ Modern image of Wandering Mission Convent ❽ Modern image of the Church at Wandering mission ❻ Catholic communion ❻ Fred Penny (with yellow shirt), Willum Nannup (bending down), looks like Vernon and Harry Turvey as well ❻ Vernon Turvey, Richard Michael, Rodney Ugle and Fred Penny ❽ Modern image close up of cross on building ❻ Helen Michael (Deceased) at the back (Damper Day) |
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❻ The sign pointing down the road to the Mission ❻ Group of boys ❻ Boys Making a vegetable garden |
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Marribank / Carrolup Mission |
❺ Satellite Map Images |
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❶ 134345PD: Marribank Mission, January 1958 ❷ Dormitory12Right_Bldg11Left ❷ Site In Summer ❷ Playground Between Schoo & Supers Qtrs. 2 ❷ Mission Bus At Dining Hall 2 ❷ Dining Hall Interior_Small Children ❷ Dining Hall Interior_Boys Table ❷ Dorm12_Boys In Sports Uniform ❷ Dorm 11 |
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❷ Carrolup River ❷ Carrolup River 3 |
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❶ 003799D: Rabbits enemies, 1950 Revel Cooper, 1934 — |
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❷ OpeningNewDorm14v.JPG ❷ CarrolupRiver3.JPG |
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Strength and Resilience Yarning |
❻ ‘Wandering Back To Wandering’ (Music Recording) |
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❼ Mission Days “Mirril” (Artwork) ❼ Untitled – Pencil and ink of grass trees (Artwork) |
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Conclusion |
❶ Children at Moore River Native Settlement, 1930s ❶ Ethel and William Fryer with school children at Carrolup Native Settlement, 1916 |
