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    aboriginal people. The stolen generation is a devastating story. It is honestly hard to believe that Australian men and women would take away innocent aboriginal children from their homes and communities ‘for their own good’ and that white Australians believed that it would be beneficial for Aboriginal children with some ‘white blood’ to grow up in white society. It shows how horrific the past generations were and how lucky we are to be growing up in such a fortunate generation. Aboriginal children

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    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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    Stolen Generation Dating back to 1910-1970‚ hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal people (mainly children) were forcibly taken away‚ by police or welfare officers‚ from their families and homes‚ due to the newly created legislations. Hundreds of children were stripped away from their childhood and were forced to live with ‘white families” as it was thought that aboriginal people‚ especially children were vulnerable to influence and could be easily persuaded to live through the ways of “white people”

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    Short essay – We have all heard of the stolen generation in Australia’s history‚ and know of the issues and problems the indigenous Australians faced and although modern times for indigenous Australians are a lot better than previous times‚ they are still faced with many issues. These include education leading onto high unemployment‚ remoteness of some living lands‚ problems proving rightful lands and culture clashes of today. However some solutions I think will work are mentioned later on‚ which

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    Speech on the impact of the stolen generation. Our generation‚ The Stolen generation‚ 60 years ago was corrupted by our so called ‘Country leaders’. It has been impacted greatly from the means of the federal parliament snatching our kids right from underneath our noses with force. These kids could have had a future of becoming what they wanted with the support of their beloved aboriginal families. I know you cannot change what parliament has done back then‚ but the only thing you can do is apologise

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    Identity and Belonging journal 2013 Personal Identity __________________________ is good at: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. _________________________ is not: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. _________________________ finds it difficult to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Five things very important to __________________________: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. THINGS THAT MAKE ME‚ ME Growing Up Asian in Australia Story title: _______________________________________________________

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    The discovery of Australia by the English on January 26th 1788 was a terrific day for the aboriginals. White settlement meant the colonization of Australia. Education is one of the main things in life and if you don’t have that you’re going to end up on the street. That’s where white settlement comes in‚ The British built schools for most aboriginal children‚ they tough them how to eat properly‚ speak English‚ math’s and how to build things. Health is a main necessity in life and if you don’t

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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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    Rodolfo Paisley‚ Fiona. “Race and Remembrance: Contesting Aboriginal Child Removal in the Inter War Years.” Accessed on: 8th April‚ 2010 at: http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-November-1997/paisley.html Read‚ Peter. The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal Children in New South Wales 1883 -1969 . Accessed on 7th April‚ 2010 from: http://www.daa.nsw.gov.au/publications/StolenGenerations.pdf Stannner‚ W.E.H and Barwick‚ Diane. “Not By Eastern Windows Only: Anthropological

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