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Hansard text of the National Apology to the Stolen Generations, with Kevin Rudd's subsequent speech; Hansard text of Brendan Nelson's reply speech to the National Apology to the Stolen Generations; Stolen Generation apology text; Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples from the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
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 ...
Read worked as a teacher and civil servant before co-founding Link-Up. Link-Up was an organisation that reunited aboriginal families who had undergone forcible separation of children from their families through government intervention. Read coined the term "Stolen Generations" to refer to the children subject to these interventions in a 1981 ...
For the Stolen Generation, the fears were the same. The film then shifts from this historical run-in to the modern day, where a new baby seems to be in the Moogai’s sights.
[2] [3] They have frequently cited the near extermination of Aboriginal Tasmanians, [4] mass killings during the frontier wars, [5] forced removals of Indigenous children from their families (now known as the Stolen Generations), [6] and policies of forced assimilation as genocidal. [7]
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.
Hogan launched another project in 2011: an Online Museum devoted to capturing the testimonies of Australia's Stolen Generations. The museum was launched at Parliament House to commemorate the 4th anniversary of the Apology to the Stolen Generations. Hogan has been capturing testimonies since 2009 inspired by Steven Spielberg's Shoah Foundation ...
The film explores the Kanyini philosophy and the life of Bob Randall, Aboriginal elder, songman and storyteller who lived in Mutitjulu, a town beside the world's greatest monolith, Uluru, in Central Australia. Bob Randall was a 'Tjilpi' (special teaching uncle) of the Yankunytjatjara people and a member of the Stolen Generations. [2]