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A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cooke. The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under ...
Link-Up reconnected Aboriginal families who had children forcibly separated from them by the government via adoption and state wardship. Read was the first to employ the term "Stolen Generations" to describe these practices in a 1981 study titled "The Stolen Generations: The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969".
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These children are sometimes referred to as the Stolen Generations. [65] Similar policies affected unmarried mothers of European descent. [66] [67] In the United States, according to the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA), 25 to 35 percent of Native children nationwide were being removed from their families in 1978. [68]
State government funded redress schemes have made or are planning ex-gratia payments to Forgotten Australians in some states. [45] In Queensland, payments were made in 2009 ranging from $7,000 to $40,000. [46] In Western Australia, payments were expected to range from $10,000 to $80,000 and were to be made in 2010. [47]
In Kruger v Commonwealth, decided in 1997, also known as the Stolen Generation Case, the High Court of Australia rejected a challenge to the validity of legislation applying in the Northern Territory between 1918 and 1957 which authorised the removal of Aboriginal children from their families.
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The Act gave the States' Aboriginal Protection Board control of the Aboriginal reserves in New South Wales, and those that occupied them. Amendments to the Act later gave the Aborigines Protection Board in New South Wales broad powers to remove Aboriginal children from their families, resulting in the Stolen Generations .