What were the main psychological problems that you saw in Woomera of the children?
DR O’NEILL: Mainly depression, I think, is the main one. It is all around them, they pick it up. They suffered fear when they saw terrible things happening. They suffered fear when they saw their parents being upset, and if their parents were involved in riots, then, I think these children were being taught to riot and were having their – you know, their emotional capabilities sort of blunted by what they had – were bearing and putting up with. I mean, you know, you can put an overall cover on it and say it is mainly – mainly under the heading of depression – they lost opportunities to give expression to ordinary childhood play. Play – I notice in one of the documents – play is heavily accented as an absolute necessity and of course it is – and the children played, but they didn’t play enough. They didn’t feel free to play some of the time. They didn’t play well, I think, a lot of them, and the facilities for play were just not adequate. The range of children – I mean, most of the boys
