Take This Child: From Kahlin Compound to the Retta Dixon Children*s Home

Providing an account of the institutionalization of "part-Aboriginal" people in the Northern Territory of Australia from the early 1900s to the 1980s, this history focuses on the Kahlin Compound and the Retta Dixon Children’s Home and includes a detailed analysis of the prevailing social and political forces, as well as the views of those who actually grew up under this system.