What generation is the Stolen Generation?
The Stolen Generations refers to a period in Australia’s history where Aboriginal children were removed from their families through government policies. This happened from the mid-1800s to the 1970s.
Who stopped the stolen generation?
The NSW Aborigines Protection Board loses its power to remove Indigenous children. The Board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board and is finally abolished in 1969.
Why were the stolen generation taken?
What happened and why? The forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families was part of the policy of Assimilation, which was based on the misguided assumption that the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people would be improved if they became part of white society.
What happened to aboriginals during the Stolen Generation?
Since colonisation, numerous government laws, policies and practices resulted in the forced removal of generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and communities across Australia.
Who started the Stolen Generation?
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.
Why did the Australian government apologize to the Stolen Generation?
On 13 February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples, particularly to the Stolen Generations whose lives had been blighted by past government policies of forced child removal and Indigenous assimilation.
How did Stolen Generation End?
The NSW Aborigines Protection Board loses its power to remove Indigenous children. The Board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board and is finally abolished in 1969. By 1969, all states have repealed the legislation allowing for the removal of Aboriginal children under the policy of ‘protection’.
What does the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 provide?
The main purpose of the Act is “to reinstate ownership of traditional Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory to Aboriginal people” (Austrade). It provides for the grant of inalienable freehold title for Aboriginal land, meaning that the land cannot be bought or otherwise acquired, including by any NT law.
What is the Stolen Generation BTN?
The Stolen Generation is the name that’s been given to a group of Indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their homes. During the 1900s the Australian Government took almost 50 thousand Indigenous kids away from their families and their homes.
When did the Australian government say sorry?
13 February 2008
On 13 February 2008 Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to Australia’s Indigenous peoples, particularly to the Stolen Generations whose lives had been blighted by past government policies of forced child removal and Indigenous assimilation.
What is the 2008 apology?
On 13 February 2008, the Parliament of Australia issued a formal apology to Indigenous Australians for forced removals of Australian Indigenous children (often referred to as the Stolen Generations) from their families by Australian federal and state government agencies.
What did the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976 mean for Indigenous people?
In December 1976 the federal parliament passed the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act. It was the first legislation in Australia that enabled Indigenous people to claim land rights for country where traditional ownership could be proven.
Are there any articles on the Stolen Generations?
In Volume 10, Issue 4, 2008, no fewer than three of the seven articles were on Australia: one on the Stolen Generations and two on colonial history. Indicting Australia for genocide has become an academic obsession.
What was life like for half caste people in Fiji?
Over the generations, these half-caste people experienced a harsh, shunned and a bizarre social treatment from the colonial obsession with herding citizens into separate, tidy, racial boxes, which led to the separation of Fijian mixed-bloods from their natural families.
Why was the term half caste used in Australia?
In Australia, the term “half-caste” or any other proportional representation of Aboriginality is highly offensive, and results in criminal, civil or a physical response. It was widely used in the 19th- and early-20th-century Australian laws to refer to the offspring of European and Aboriginal parents.
Who was the judge in the Stolen Generations case?
In 1994 she helped convene a Darwin conference of ‘stolen’ generations with 600 attendees. Melbourne barrister Ron Merkel, soon to be appointed by the Labor federal government a Federal Court judge, told them they had a similar case for compensation as German Jews after WWII.
