Ian Hamm calls it the transformation document . It is a single piece of paper that outlines the legal end of his life as Yorta Yorta baby Andrew James, and the start of his new life as the adopted son of a white family in Yarrawonga.
Ian Hamm who was removed from his Aboriginal family as a child is hopeful the commission will lay down the good, the bad and the ugly chapters of Victoria s past.
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It is a document that took Hamm, a member of the Stolen Generations, decades to find. At the top of the page I m referred to as Andrew James … and at the bottom of the page, it says, shall henceforth be known as Ian David Hamm , he said.