Introduction: Remembering Back Through the Heart -- A Boy's Short Life (written with Steve Mickler) -- Experiments in Civilising -- Of Citizens and Outcasts -- Special Treatment Western Australian Style -- Fighting Over the Children -- Brooms, Spades and Bibles -- Visions of Assimilation -- Making Nuclear Families -- A Twilight of Knowing -- Nineteenth-century legislation and institutions for Aboriginal children -- Summary of Aborigines Act 1905 -- Chronology of Aboriginal Children's Institutions in Western Australia, 1842-1970s -- Daily Timetable at Forrest River Mission, 1915-35
