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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 ...
Since 1998 Australia has acknowledged the harms caused to Indigenous Australians in a National Sorry Day on May 26. [87] In 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on behalf of the Australian Parliament, deliver an apology to the stolen generations and to all Indigenous Australians who had suffered because of the unjust government policies of the past.
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]
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.
Bringing Them Home is the 1997 Australian Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.The report marked a pivotal moment in the controversy that has come to be known as the Stolen Generations.
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]
The girls taken to the home were part of the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal people in Australia. [18] One former "Coota girl," Lorraine Peeters, established the Marumali Program in 2000, to help people affected by the Stolen Generations to heal from trauma and in a culturally informed manner. [19] [12]
Ballarat Orphanage housed members of the Stolen Generations. [10] In the report Bringing Them Home , Barwick stated that "during 1956 and 1957, more than one hundred and fifty children (more than 10 per cent of the children in the Aboriginal population of Victoria at the time) were living in State children's institutions."