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Colebrook: A Place of Healing & Learning

May 13, 2022 | IMDB 0

30 min Watch Now

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Colebrook Blackwood Reconciliation Park is where the Colebrook Training Home once stood. It is now a permanent memorial for the Aboriginal children of the “Stolen Generation” and their families.

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