Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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.
In Western Australia, payments were expected to range from $10,000 to $80,000 and were to be made in 2010. [47] The maximum payment may be limited because of underfunding. [48] New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australia are yet to fund redress schemes. [49] The Victorian Government position is that individual cases will be addressed on ...
Since 1998 Australia has acknowledged the harms caused to Indigenous Australians in a National Sorry Day on May 26. [87] 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.
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.
The Lost Generation was the demographic cohort that reached early adulthood during World War I, and preceded the Greatest Generation.The social generation is generally defined as people born from 1883 to 1900, coming of age in either the 1900s or the 1910s, and were the first generation to mature in the 20th century.
Peter John Read AM FASSA (born 1945) [1] is an Australian historian specialising in the history of Indigenous Australians. Read worked as a teacher and civil servant before co-founding Link-Up. Read worked as a teacher and civil servant before co-founding Link-Up.
Hidden Generation people hid in a number of ways – at times they hid physically, at other times they hid their identity and cultural practices. [2] Aboriginal peoples often experienced discrimination as a result of government policies, such as assimilation, which led to Indigenous people being regarded as inferior to non-Indigenous people. In ...