The Stolen Generation was and is still going on in New South Wales and Queensland. The Government empowered the white people to remove aboriginal children from their homes and families. The reason for these children to be taken away from their parents was because the White people thought that the parents couldn’t take care of their kids so they took them away and put them in foster care and made the adoption agency the legal guardian of all children under the age of 18. The effects on the stolen
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Worksheet 2 Experiences of the stolen generation Edited from the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Bringing them Home - The Report The overwhelming majority of the children forcibly removed under assimilationist legislation and policies were separated from their Indigenous family‚ community and culture. 1) They were not permitted to use their languages. Y’know‚ I can remember we used to just talk lingo. [In the Home] they used to tell us not to talk that language‚ that it’s
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A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Stolen Generations and genocide in Rwanda were both terrible and horrific but differ in who the perpetrators were‚ what the end goal was‚ and how it was resolved. Every genocide is committed by a person or group of people‚ whether it be the government‚ different tribes‚ different races‚ different religions‚ etc. The genocide in Rwanda was started by extremists of Rwanda’s
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Change and Continuity The ’Stolen Generations’ are the generations of Aboriginal children taken away from their families by governments‚ churches and welfare bodies to be brought up in institutions or fostered out to white families. The Governments‚ churches and welfare bodies controlled the aboriginal people from where they could live‚ where they could work‚ and what kinds of jobs they could do‚ who they could associate with and who they could marry. The indigenous children were often forced from
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How was the removal of Aboriginal Children from their families justified by the Australian Government and white society?? At the turn of the twentieth century the systematic forced removal of Aboriginal children from their mothers‚ families and cultural heritage was commonplace. There were several reasons that the government and white society used to justify the separation but the prevailing ideology of nationalism and maintaining Australia for the ‘whites’ was the over-riding motivation and justification
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Stolen Generation The forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) children from their families was an Official Government policy in the early 1900’s. By the late 1980’s‚ there were more than 100 000 of ATSI descent children who had been taken away from their families and lost links with their language‚ culture and traditions; they are known as Stolen Generation. Between 1995 – 1997 The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) provided recommendations to reunite Indigenous
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children of Aboriginal status or children with a little bit of Aboriginal status‚ half caste. “It is estimated that between 50‚000 to 100‚000 Indigenous children were taken from their families...” (Lecture). The government had decided that the mothers/families that were Indigenous Aborigines were not fit for raising a family. The government wanted to breed out the Aboriginal people. From that they wanted to breed out all the Aboriginal people. These Aboriginal children were known as the Stolen Generation
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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 acts of their respective parliaments. The removals occurred in the period between approximately 1909[1] and 1969‚[2][3] although in some places children were still being taken until the 1970s.[4][5][6] Documentary evidence‚ such as newspaper articles
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Today we debate the stolen generation. For those of you who honestly believe that saying sorry to the indigenous Australians was the correct thing to do‚ I am here to convince you wrong‚ and convince you wrong I will. For those of you who‚ with me‚ believe the stolen generation claims have been over-exaggerated‚ I will further prove your point correct. And for those of you who are sitting on the fence‚ I will lead the way over to the honest and correct side. For years indigenous Australian’s
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The stolen generation ....The degradation and the sheer brutality of the act of physically separating a mother from her children is a deep assault on our senses and on our most elemental humanity.... The stolen generation is the name given to the generation of aboriginal and Torres strait islander children that were removed from their families and placed into institutions where they were forced to forget their aboriginality. These children were then given a poor education and were sent into the
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