Aboriginal children forcibly removed from their families between the 1900s and the 1960s, to be brought up by white foster families or in institutions; the stolen generation.
a woman who finds she is descended from stolen children
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It's not the numbers of stolen children which matters most in the debate over an apology, it's about what apologising or not apologising says about who we are.
She talks about stolen children and families torn apart by bureaucracy and arrogant politicians who wouldn't listen or understand.
Many stolen children had difficulty reconnecting with their family members, their heritage, or their oral histories later in life.
Poor record keeping makes it impossible to know the exact numbers of stolen children.
Manne devotes considerable space to "lost generations" and stolen children.
It makes the whole thing about stolen children not just about Aboriginal people but sort of like a dark undercurrent of our society.
Here is a story that should have resonances for Australians, both through tales of convict ancestry and also through past treatment of indigenous people, particularly stolen children.
We should seek to negotiate the issue of the Stolen Children and end the practice of seeking to justify unjustifiable policies through the courts.
The stolen children are a powerful Australian symbol of tragic suffering, courageous survival and compassionate spirit.
Unlike the stolen children, this crime is being recorded and analysed almost as it happens.