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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.
These people are now known as the Stolen Generations. As part of the scheme, Neville directed young Aboriginal children and babies into the Children's Cottage Home run by Clutterbuck. In June 1934, Clutterbuck and Ruth Lefroy relocated the home with ten school-aged children to a new site on Railway Street (now Treasure Road), Queens Park. The ...
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.
Alec (Bumbolili) Kruger (24 December 1924 – 20 February 2015) was a member of the Stolen Generations and he was one of the plaintiffs who unsuccessfully sought compensation from the government in Kruger v Commonwealth in the High Court of Australia. Early life Kruger was born on the banks of the Katherine River at a place called Donkey Camp, the son of Franz (Frank) Kruger and Yrambul ...
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".
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.
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