children from Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls to the Aboriginal mother. Aboriginal artist and author Sally Morgan has written several novels based on the lives of her and her family members, featuring intimate portrayals of the impact of forced removal on individuals, their families, and communities, although Sally herself was not a stolen child. Her first, My Place, involves her quest to uncover her Aboriginal heritage which had previously been denied by her family, who insisted "as a survival mechanism" that they were of Indian extraction. Benang is Indigenous Australian Kim Scott's second novel. Benang is about forced assimilation and finding how one can return to one's own culture. The novel presents how difficult it is to form a working history of a population who had been historically uprooted from its past. Benang follows Harley, a young man who has gone through the process of "breeding out the colour", as he pieces together his family history through documentation, such as photograph and his grandfather's notes, as well as memories and experiences. Harley and his family have undergone a process of colonial scientific experimentation called "breeding of the colour", which separated individuals from their indigenous families and origins. Notable people Gordon Briscoe, Doctor of Indigenous History, Order of Australia Deborah Cheetham, Aboriginal soprano, actor, composer and playwright Katherine Mary Clutterbuck (Sister Kate) Ken Colbung, political activist and leader Ningali Cullen (deceased), co-chair of the National Sorry Day Committee Belinda Dann, born as Quinlyn Warrakoo, forced name change to Belinda Boyd, deceased at 107 years of age making her the longest-lived member of the stolen generation Lorna Fejo, the Warumungu woman named by Kevin Rudd, in his Apology to the Stolen Generations in 2008 Sue Gordon, retired Perth Children's Court magistrate. Ruby Hunter, musician A. O. Neville, WA Protector Of Aborigines from 1915–45 and advocate of the removal of children May O'Brien, WA educator and author Lowitja O'Donoghue, AC, CBE, DSG, nurse, public administrator and Indigenous rights activist Doris Pilkington Garimara, author of Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence Bob Randall, Indigenous Australian of the Year Aunty Isabel Reid (born 1932), elder and advocate for the Stolen Generation; NSW State Recipient of Senior Australian of the Year 2021; oldest living survivor of those forcibly removed under the Aborigines Protection Act 1909 (NSW), having been sent to the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls Minister for Indigenous Australians, Ken Wyatt, paid homage