This has led people who studied diaries to question the demarcation between personal and corporate, or private and public records. The histories recorded in your personal records belong to “those public narratives of community, religion, ethnicity and nation which make private identity possible.” Australians have discovered, in the memory work involved in Bringing them Home, that there is no clear division between personal and collective stories, between public and private. Life stories of Aboriginals are about we, rather than I and the life stories of the ‘stolen generation’ have constituted an Australian lieu de mémoire, both for Aboriginals and non-Aboriginal Australians. In a comparable way have life stories of immigrants contributed to constituting collective memories within the immigrant groups and within society at large.