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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 ...
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.
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. However, the apology did not specifically acknowledge genocide. [88]
He wrote a publication whilst he was the CEO of the Western Australian Aboriginal Legal Service Inc telling of his experience of forced removal (known as the Stolen Generations). Telling Our Story was described as "the most comprehensive description of the experience of Aboriginal people removed from their families undertaken in Western Australia".
Roach was a part of the Stolen Generations, generations subject to a policy that ran from about 1905 until the 1970s where Indigenous Australian children were forcibly removed from their family by Australian government agencies, and placed in orphanages. Roach wrote "Took the Children Away" about this experience in 1988.
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]
The Troubled-Teen Industry Has Been A Disaster For Decades. It's Still Not Fixed.
Lorna "Nanna Nungala" Fejo was born on 14 June 1930 [citation needed] to an Aboriginal mother and white father. [1]At four years of age, Lorna Fejo was forcibly removed from her family and community at Tennant Creek along with her sister, brother, and older cousin, by an Aboriginal stockman and two white men.