Stolen Generations
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No sign of apology to 'home children'...nobody, to whom to turn," Mr. Rudd said in a speech at parliament. It also followed Mr. Rudd's 2008 apology to the so-called Stolen Generation of Aborigines, who were taken from their families to be raised in institutions and white... In this article: Jason Kenney, Kevin Rudd, Canada, Dog, Stephen Harper, Australia, Britain, and Stolen Generation |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 5 days ago
A moment of dignity, all too rare
In this article: Malcolm Turnbull and Brendan Nelson
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Reuters | 6 days ago
Australia's Rudd says sorry to orphans, child migrants
...around 500,000 people who had campaigned for such a speech for decades. It also followed Rudd's 2008 apology to the so-called Stolen Generation of Aborigines, who were taken from their families to be raised in institutions and white homes...
In this article: Kevin Rudd, Australia, Stolen Generation, Andrew Murray, Gordon Brown, and Britain
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BBC News | 6 days ago
Australia 'sorry' for child abuse
...homes from 1930 to 1970. Mr Rudd's speech comes after his formal apology last year to Australia's Aboriginal community, especially the Stolen Generation. These were Aborigines who were taken from their parents and sent to state...
In this article: Australia, UK, Canberra, Stolen Generation, Gordon Brown, and Canada
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Apology for 'forgotten Australians'
...so happy - we're actually going to be recognised at last. I've been waiting for years for this. When Kevin Rudd said sorry to the Stolen Generation, tears came to my eyes because I thought 'What about us? We came from the other side of the...
In this article: Kevin Rudd, Canberra, Stolen Generation, Malcolm Turnbull, Jenny Macklin, South Australia, and England
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The Australian | November 08, 2009
Stolen payout challenged
THE South Australian government today begins its legal challenge against the first successful compensation claim by a member of the Stolen Generations. It is seeking to overturn a judgment that awarded $775,000 in damages and legal costs...
In this article: South Australia and Melbourne
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I'm so sick of being sorry
...sorry as back as 1993. And now, we're all sorry. As it happens, Australia is still playing sorry catch up, even after the apology to the Stolen Generations. The US Congress is sorry for "ill-conceived" policies towards native Americans.
In this article: Alan Turing, Oscar Wilde, Gordon Brown, Tax, Jenny Macklin, Agent Orange, Second World War, and The Salvation Army
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The Australian | October 19, 2009
Newspoll blow for Turnbull
...as low as it has been since the election loss of 2007. After Nelson's leadership was hit by the euphoria of the apology to the Stolen Generations, the ratification of Kyoto, Kevin Rudd's unparalleled, sustained popularity and the baggage...
In this article: Malcolm Turnbull, Brendan Nelson, Newspoll, Peter Costello, Liberal Party, Kevin Rudd, Climate change, John Howard, and Michael Lee
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Support for Libs slides to just 30pc
...was 48per cent - equal to its second-highest primary vote recorded since the election, with only the weekend after the apology to the Stolen Generations in February last year showing a higher support of 51 per cent. On a...
In this article: Malcolm Turnbull, Newspoll, Kevin Rudd, Liberal Party, Liberal Party, Michael Lee, and Australia
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Aborigines deserve elected body
...did not give honest answers". Would the ethics council allow O'Donoghue to be selected? She represented herself as a member of the Stolen Generations, despite by her own admission never having been stolen. These mistakes are not...
In this article: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Mick Dodson, Democracy, Self-determination, Cadre, and Tax
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The new stolen generation
...in the local hospital, recovering from giving birth. Aboriginal women, stunned by the removals, say it amounts to a "modern-day Stolen Generation", but the most recent statistics on child removals show Aboriginal children are being taken...
In this article: Lightning Ridge, Queensland, and NSW
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The Stolen Generations (also Stolen generation and Stolen children) is a term used to describe those children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian and State government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments. The removals occurred in the period between approximately 1869 and 1969, although, in some places, children were still being taken in the 1970s.
The extent of the removal of children, and the reasoning behind their removal, are contested. Documentary evidence, such as newspaper articles and reports to parliamentary committees, suggest a range of rationales. Motivations evident include child protection, beliefs that given their catastrophic population decline post white contact that black people would "die out" , fears of miscegenation and a desire to attain white racial purity.
Terms such as "stolen" were used in the context of taking children from their families - the Hon P. McGarry, a member of the Parliament of New South Wales, objected to the Aborigines Protection Amending Act 1915 which enabled the Aborigines' Protection Board to remove Aboriginal children from their parents without having to establish that they were in any way neglected or mistreated; McGarry described the policy as "steal[ing] the child away from its parents".. In 1923, in the Adelaide Sun an article stated "The word 'stole' may sound a bit far-fetched but by the time we have told the story of the heart-broken Aboriginal mother we are sure the word will not be considered out of place."
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