Justice Bernard Murphy has travelled through the Northern Territory this week as part of an ongoing class action over allegedly stolen wages of Aboriginal people before 1971.
Cecily Nixon was around three months old when she was taken from her family in Borroloola — almost 1,000 kilometres south-east of Darwin — to be raised at the Garden Point catholic mission on the Tiwi Islands to Darwin's north, a class action court case has heard.
"I grew up hating my mother because I thought she was the one who gave me away and didn't want me, but that wasn't the case," she said.
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