Title: Tripping over feathers : scenes in the life of Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams : a narrative of the Stolen Generations /
Authors: Read, Peter, 1945-
Publisher: UWA Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Williams, Joy,; Aboriginal Australians Substance use Australia New South Wales Biography.; Mentally ill Australia New South Wales Biography.; Stolen generations (Australia) Australia New South Wales Biography.; Australian poetry Aboriginal Australian authors Biography.
Abstract: Joy Janaka Wiradjuri Williams was a member of the Stolen Generations. She was removed from her mother at birth and put into a home for white girls. As an effected adult she spent ten years in court suing the State Government for negligence. Not only did Joy lose the case but lost two seperate appeals. Several years later she was found dead, alone, in her Primbee flat in New South Wales.