Jo Stuurman - Link-Up (Qld) Part One

Jo Sparrow talks to Jo Stuurman about his experience as an adoptee who lived through the Stolen Generation. The Stolen Generations are Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their families, community, and culture owing to government policies and laws throughout the 1900s, until at least 1970. Jo was adopted by a Dutch immigrant family along with two other Noongar children, and they named him Robert Stuurman. He spent his childhood living between Australia, the Netherlands and Papua New Guinea. Jo took on his birth name, Joseph following his reunion in 1992 and is now known as Jo. He is an artist and has served as Board Director and a staff member within the Link-Up (Qld) organisation and has had an association with the organisation for 27 years, beginning as a client in 1992.