Kevin Rudd Sorry Speech analysis Kevin Rudd (Prime Minister at the time) made an apology to the “Stolen Generation” from the Parliament House‚ Canberra‚ 2008. The “Stolen Generation” were the children of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from the Australian Federal and State government agencies and church missions‚ under the acts of their respective Parliaments. Kevin Rudd’s aim was to inform the Indigenous community of the Australian Governments ‘wrong doings’
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song tells the story about the stolen generation. A male aboriginal‚ who feels heartbroken about the aboriginal children being stolen‚ has properly written it. The song criticize the white mans methods‚ and he thinks they have been robbed of their children. This song is probably been written some time after the first children being “stolen”‚ I think it’s written in year 1875 or later. 1. The story is about the removal of the aboriginal children‚ which were “stolen” by the church and the white man
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the children of the aboriginals were forcibly taken away from their parents and brought up by white parents. the adults were taken to settlements where there was hardly any cultural inter-mingling. The children of the natives were known as the stolen generation named such because they were
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Long term effects of the stolen generation. They felt strong guilt because Stolen Generation members often blamed their birth mothers and real fathers for not loving them‚ though many of them never really knew the whole truth of anything because they were either too young to understand or feed off the incorrect information that was given to them by the missions or foster parents. They also had difficulties in finding their religions‚ because of how often they have been brought to many different missions
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components such as form and context. They differ quite clearly in audience‚ language and purpose. The programs that were viewed on Wednesday the 13th of February 2008 will be useful to analyse the points of comparison between the two‚ Especially the Stolen Generations Apology. Form: The 7.30 Report and A Current Affair‚ talk about the cultural‚ political and social events and interests at the present time. A current Affair mostly talks about political and social events that happen nationally‚ although
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explore sections that depict Australia as vibrant but contrasting to this notion‚ would be the underlying incidences that exhibit the implementation of fear built within society. This can be shown through the texts Ruby Moon by Matt Cameron and Stolen written by Jane Harrison. A medium commonly visited throughout both plays is the idea of children missing and the devastating impacts on mediate family members‚ media and mankindʼs ever changing normalities. Australian drama and theatre have staged
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Always in the Backseat Alienation is something the stolen generation faces every day and the western society knows nothing about these indigenous issues. Boredom consuming you as you watch another reality television show‚ prepared to be amazed as SBS are broadcasting a new series about indigenous Australia named A Bit of Black Business. The SBS TV series A Bit of Black Business gives you perspective on the issues indigenous Australian’s faces every day and how mainstream Australia affects
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being taken away‚ is it useful to think of the Stolen Generations as something that happened in the past‚ or as a contemporary issue affecting Indigenous peoples? What implications are there for all Australians in recognizing the need for national healing? The Stolen Generation was a time of grief‚ sorrow and sadness for many indigenous people. To say that it is something of the past would be distorting the seriousness of the issue‚ the Stolen Generation was and always will be a contemporary issue
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policies. Although this is over‚ the traumatic experience of the children who experienced that‚ consequently‚ is having a current impact on Indigenous communities‚ families and individuals. The Stolen Generation is what these children are known as. The Europeans wrongly told the children of the Stolen Generation that their parents had either died or abandoned them after once they were under the care of the Europeans‚ moreover‚ manipulating them into thinking what they were doing was right. Seized children
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