The stolen ones fight on

WHEN Lorna Cubillo was seven, she and 15 other aboriginal children were put into a truck by white officials at an outback settlement in the Northern Territory. “As the truck left Phillip Creek, everyone was crying and screaming,” she says. “I remember mothers beating their heads with sticks and rocks. They were bleeding. They threw dirt over themselves. I remember seeing the mothers chasing the truck. And then they disappeared in the dust of the track.”