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Jack Charles[edit]

Jack Charles was an Aboriginal [1] Australian actor, author and activist on a number of social issues. Removed from his mother Blanche and placed in the Box Hill Boys' Home, he survived "the second-most vicious Salvation Army home in the state" to become one of Australia's first Aboriginal stage actors.


Attitude to Christianity[edit]

Jack Charles was raised by the notoriously devout Salvation Army: later in life, he recalled that a Salvation Army member had asked the children from the Boys Home "Wouldn't you like to be the donkey carrying Jesus into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday?".

  1. Dja Dja Wurrung, Boonwurrung, Woiwurrung and Yorta Yorta