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Read worked as a teacher and civil servant before co-founding Link-Up. Link-Up was an organisation that reunited aboriginal families who had undergone forcible separation of children from their families through government intervention. Read coined the term "Stolen Generations" to refer to the children subject to these interventions in a 1981 ...
Stolen has been studied on the Victorian Certificate of Education and New South Wales Higher School Certificate English and drama syllabi for some years - it is the vehicle through which a generation of young people have learned about the stolen generations of First Nations children. Australian Book Review writes "Stolen is a contemporary ...
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 ...
For the Stolen Generation, the fears were the same. The film then shifts from this historical run-in to the modern day, where a new baby seems to be in the Moogai’s sights.
Doris Pilkington Garimara AM (born Nugi Garimara; c. 1 July 1937 – 10 April 2014), also known as Doris Pilkington, was an Aboriginal Australian author.. Garimara wrote Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), a story about the stolen generation, and based on three Aboriginal girls, among them Pilkington's mother, Molly Craig, who escaped from the Moore River Native Settlement in Western ...
Under the Australian policy passed in 1890, children who had both a full-blood Aboriginal parent and a non-Aboriginal parent were considered half-castes, [3] a policy which resulted in the Stolen Generations. His parents went to work for white families and never acquired an education, making them illiterate.
The film explores the Kanyini philosophy and the life of Bob Randall, Aboriginal elder, songman and storyteller who lived in Mutitjulu, a town beside the world's greatest monolith, Uluru, in Central Australia. Bob Randall was a 'Tjilpi' (special teaching uncle) of the Yankunytjatjara people and a member of the Stolen Generations. [2]
Johnson's writing addresses themes of cultural identity, Aboriginal Australian women's rights, the stolen generation, land rights, slavery, sexism and homophobia. [6] Johnson played the part of Alice Wilson (credited as Eva Birrit) in the fourth segment of the 1981 award-winning series Women of the Sun .