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Black, White and Exempt: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Lives Under Exemption Product Type / Tea Towels The conventional framework of artIn 1957, Ella Simon of Purfleet mission near Taree, New South Wales, applied for and was granted a certificate of exemption. Exemption gave her legal freedoms denied to other Indigenous Australians at that time: she could travel freely, open a bank account, and live and work where she wanted. In the eyes of the law she became a non Aboriginal, but in return she could not associate with other Aboriginal people even her own family or community. It