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Long Yarn Short
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Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts
About this listen
At just ten years old, Vanessa Turnbull-Roberts was forcibly removed – stolen – from her family, community and kinship systems. After eight years in various out-of-home care placements, Vanessa fled the system, reconnected with kin and returned to country for the very first time. Only then did she begin to heal. In this book, Vanessa embarks on an extraordinary work of truth-telling, exposing the ongoing violence visited on Black children, their families and their communities by the systems that claim to protect them. As a survivor of out-of-home care, a practising lawyer fighting for the freedom of others and now also a mother herself, she takes an unflinching look at the heartache and trauma caused by racist family policing, the shameful rates of child removals and the steady pipeline of First Nations children into the criminal justice system. Long Yarn Short is a story of struggle, grief and love; a call to action from one of the most powerful voices of her generation. As a leading expert in children's and young people's rights, Vanessa invites readers to imagine solutions for a better world – a world of support and empowerment, not punishment – and demands that they listen when she says, ‘We are still here.'
©2024 The University of Queensland Press (P)2024 Audible Australia Pty Ltd.What listeners say about Long Yarn Short
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- Amazon Customer HMS
- 06-01-2025
Everyone should Read this...
This is a must read. Abolishing the absolutely flawed systems that exist is vital to discontinue the cycle of trauma that too many first nations people experience. We can change it... we must try and do better. Compelling read and story!!!
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- Anonymous User
- 16-04-2025
A much needed perspective
Everyone who knows/supports/works with blakfullas needs to read this. Vanessa’s strength emanates in her words & voice with such power. Her reflections and solutions if implemented would change the system.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-02-2025
A must read for all (especially settlers)
A must read for all, in particular if you are a settler on these lands.
I will leave you with these important quotes below:
“Family policing system is a business and it serves as a significant investment for privatisation at the cost of First Nations’ lives.”
“Did you know that it is far more expensive to keep a child in the policing system than it is to fund the communities and families themselves?”
“Did you know that the majority of children who are removed today are places in emergency hotel rooms with only a caseworker present?”
“What if I told you that there are alarm bells ringing around child sexual abuse in statutory care?”
Now go get your copy and read!
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