Today we debate the stolen generation. For those of you who honestly believe that saying sorry to the indigenous Australians was the correct thing to do‚ I am here to convince you wrong‚ and convince you wrong I will. For those of you who‚ with me‚ believe the stolen generation claims have been over-exaggerated‚ I will further prove your point correct. And for those of you who are sitting on the fence‚ I will lead the way over to the honest and correct side. For years indigenous Australian’s
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The Stolen Generations The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969 Peter Read The Stolen Generations The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969 Peter Read Fourth reprint (2006) First published in 1981 ISBN 0-646-46221-0 Foreword In 1981‚ the Department of Aboriginal Affairs published a ground-breaking paper on the Stolen Generations. The paper‚ written by Peter Read‚ was among the first attempts to document the devastation of forcibly
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The Stolen Generation is a term which refers to the number of Indigenous children who were mostly forcibly removed from their parents between 1900 and 1970’s. It is thought that around 10‚000 children were removed from their homes in NSW alone. They were either placed with white families church missions‚ Aboriginal camps or sometimes correction institutions. They usually received little education and had to work long hours. While the policy was implemented under the guise of being in the best interests
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Australian families‚ or in institutional care. Often they were abused‚ or used as domestic servants‚ or simply placed in homes against their will. The Stolen Generation destroyed numerous Aborigines’
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Contemporary Australian theatre mainly focuses on the reflection of the ‘real’ Australia and communicating to the audience real and modern issues/ideas that respond to the social climate and community. Australian theatre practitioners use various performance styles‚ techniques and dramatic conventions to help portray their ideas to their audiences and make them feel a particular way to the ideas presented in a play. Without the use of these styles‚ techniques and conventions it wouldn’t be possible
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Stolen! What if you were ‘stolen’ from your family… but the kidnappers thought they had ‘rescued’ you? The kidnapper/s then tried to brainwash you to make you like them and eventually you started to be confused about what the truth was … These are the conflicting perspectives that I have experienced in my chosen text which is a stage play called ‘Stolen’ written by Jane Harrison. What makes this text more frightening is the fact that the scenario is real and that it happened in our own backyard
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Essay Sample Stolen Stolen by Jane Harrison‚ depicts the broken lives of five children; Ruby‚ Sandy‚ Anne‚ Shirley andJimmy; and in doing so‚ portrays a myriad of personal experiences of those living in AustralianSociety. Harrison does this through the skilful use of dramatic techniques‚ which are used to conveyvarious personal experiences‚ such as Sexual Abuse and Personal Identity‚ and it is through theseexperiences in which Harrison demonstrates the personal experiences of the Stolen Generation
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Long term effects of the stolen generation. They felt strong guilt because Stolen Generation members often blamed their birth mothers and real fathers for not loving them‚ though many of them never really knew the whole truth of anything because they were either too young to understand or feed off the incorrect information that was given to them by the missions or foster parents. They also had difficulties in finding their religions‚ because of how often they have been brought to many different missions
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The stolen generation What happened? The children who were taken away from their families have become known as the ’Stolen Generations’. Their stories have only really come to light since the mid-1990s. Before that‚ many non-Indigenous people had no idea what had been happening to Aboriginal families for so many years. In 1995 the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families was launched by the Labour government under Paul Keating.
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but what if there was no such thing as human right‚ would everyone’s lives be affected by harsh cruelty? Well there are many examples of Human Rights being broken‚ the Stolen Generation is just one of them‚ and the song `Took the Children Away’ by ARCHIE ROACH‚ reflects on what happened to the stolen generation. The Stolen Generation was where Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders were removed from their families and ‘Snatched from their mother’s breast’ by the Australian Federal and State government
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