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The Stolen Generations ... This was a response to public concern over the increase in the number of mixed-descent children and sexual exploitation of young Aboriginal ...
“These are stolen generations of children,” said Deborah Parker, CEO for the Minnesota-based group. “It's about time the federal government speak so honestly and candidly about the impact
Kevin Rudd (on a big screen in Federation Square, Melbourne) apologising to the Stolen Generations Crowds viewing a public broadcast of the federal parliament's apology in Elder Park, Adelaide Copy of the apology speech, Parliament House, Canberra
In Kruger v Commonwealth, decided in 1997, also known as the Stolen Generation Case, the High Court of Australia rejected a challenge to the validity of legislation applying in the Northern Territory between 1918 and 1957 which authorised the removal of Aboriginal children from their families.
A number of responses, some critical, responded to the points raised Herron and Brunton. [23] [24] Many of these arguments continue into the present around the formal apology to the Stolen Generations of 13 February 2008.
In 2008, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, on behalf of the Australian Parliament, deliver an apology to the stolen generations and to all Indigenous Australians who had suffered because of the unjust government policies of the past. However, the apology did not specifically acknowledge genocide. [88]
The stolen children: their stories: including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families. Milsons Point, NSW: Random House Australia. ISBN 0-09-183689-1. Hill, David (2007).
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 ...