Aunty Dorrie and the 'dog licence' from aunty hotel Watch Video
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Description: Aunty Dorrie Moore tells the story behind her father Walter Davis’s Certificate of Exemption, issued by the Aboriginal Welfare Board in 1957. nnAt the time, Dorrie was working at the Adelaide Hotel in Moruya, but her own family could not enter the hotel unless they had one of these certificates, which were commonly called ‘dog licences’.nnThe ‘dog licence’ was a licence to live in a white man’s world. It allowed an Aboriginal person to entertown, vote, and send their children to th
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