Roslyn Choikee’s stolen generation story

Derek Barry
Updated October 23 2017 - 8:08am, first published 8:07am
Roslyn's story appeared in this book: The Wailing: A National Black Oral History by Stuart Rintoul.
Roslyn's story appeared in this book: The Wailing: A National Black Oral History by Stuart Rintoul.

Cloncurry-born Aboriginal woman Roslyn Choikee was interviewed for Stuart Rintoul’s 1993 book “The Wailing – A National Black Oral History”. Originally named Daisy Sheridan, she was a member of the stolen generation.

Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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