The Stolen Generations
Judy Beddoni
23rd May 2011
Table of Contents
Introduction 4
Colonisation 5
Protection and Segregation 5
The Aborigines Protection Act (1909) 6
Forced removal 7
Cootamundra Girls Home 9
Native Welfare Conference in 1937 10
Assimilation 10
Governments Lack of Understanding 11
Bringing Them Home report 13
Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Report - April 1997 13
Continued Impact 14
National Apology 15
Sorry Day 15
Sorry to the Stolen Generation 16
The Sorry Speech 16
Compensation 17
Acts of Genocide 18
Conclusion 20
Referencing 21
Table of Figures
Figure 1: Aboriginals on a Reserve 5
Figure 2: Aboriginal girls at home (photo 1936) Figure 3: Aboriginal girls living in civilised conditions 6
Figure 4: Forced Removal of children 8
Figure 5: Advertising little girls 8
Figure 6: Statistics why Aboriginal girls away (in %) taken 9
Figure 7: Stolen girls 9
Figure 8: Map of reserves and Homes 10
Figure 9: Stolen boys 12
Figure 10: Bringing them Home Report 13
Figure 11: victim of stolen generation 14
Figure 12:: John Howard 15
Figure 13:The Sorry Day poster 15
Figure 14: Kevin Rudd 16
Figure 15: Sorry Speech 16
Figure 16: Grim Government 18
The Stolen Generations
Introduction
“The Stolen Generations” refers to Aboriginal Australians who were forcibly removed, as children, from their families and communities by government, welfare or church authorities and placed into institutional care or with non-Indigenous foster families. The content of this report explores the policy of forcibly removing Indigenous children from their families.
The report also contains an outline of the practices from the beginning with colonisation to the impact of the forcible removal of Aboriginal children. The policies were designed to ‘assimilate’ or ‘breed out’ the Aboriginal people. The similarities of what happened to the Jews because of Hitler and what...