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In the late 1950s, there was an increasing focus on the global need for anthropological research into 'disappearing cultures'. [1] [2] This trend was also emerging in Australia in the work of researchers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, [3] [4] leading to a proposal by W.C. Wentworth MP for the conception of an Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies (AIAS) in 1959.
Bringing Them Home is the 1997 Australian Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families.The report marked a pivotal moment in the controversy that has come to be known as the Stolen Generations.
Wash My Soul in the River's Flow is an Australian film about singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, who were children of the Stolen Generation. [1] It was written and directed by Philippa Bateman. Archie Roach was also a producer of the film and the team worked closely with Ruby Hunter’s surviving family.
Release date. 15 November 2006 ... of the Yankunytjatjara people and a member of the Stolen Generations. [2] Overview ... Official Site;
A portrayal entitled The Taking of the Children on the 1999 Great Australian Clock, Queen Victoria Building, Sydney, by artist Chris Cooke. 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 ...
In 1940, the Nazis seized a Claude Monet pastel and seven other works of art from Adalbert "Bela" and Hilda Parlagi, a Jewish couple forced to flee their Vienna home after Austria was annexed into ...
Lousy Little Sixpence begins with the testimonies of survivors of the Stolen Generations who were born in the early 1900s. Later, the film documents the work of Jack Patten and the Aborigines Progressive Association in the 1930s, and ends with the Day of Mourning on 26 January 1938, which marked 150 years of European settlement in Australia.
Lola Edwards was born in 1946 [1] was a member of the Stolen Generations [2] and grew up in Tingha, NSW. [3] Her mother was a Ngarabal woman and father was a Kamilaroi man. Her father was what Aboriginal people would call an "old bush lawyer" and would regularly be an advocate for Aboriginal people in court.