group that are subject to extreme discrimination impacting on their life’s. The Stolen generation had severe negative impacts on the victims of the stolen generation and has continued to negatively affect future generations. Further negative implications have stemmed from this extreme action. And it is the cause of many issues of inequality today among Indigenous Australians. This essay will define the stolen generation‚ outline and discuss the negative impacts that have stemmed from it and then link
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The Stolen Generation was and is still going on in New South Wales and Queensland. The Government empowered the white people to remove aboriginal children from their homes and families. The reason for these children to be taken away from their parents was because the White people thought that the parents couldn’t take care of their kids so they took them away and put them in foster care and made the adoption agency the legal guardian of all children under the age of 18. The effects on the stolen
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Speech on the impact of the stolen generation. Our generation‚ The Stolen generation‚ 60 years ago was corrupted by our so called ‘Country leaders’. It has been impacted greatly from the means of the federal parliament snatching our kids right from underneath our noses with force. These kids could have had a future of becoming what they wanted with the support of their beloved aboriginal families. I know you cannot change what parliament has done back then‚ but the only thing you can do is apologise
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Stolen Generation Dating back to 1910-1970‚ hundreds of thousands of Aboriginal people (mainly children) were forcibly taken away‚ by police or welfare officers‚ from their families and homes‚ due to the newly created legislations. Hundreds of children were stripped away from their childhood and were forced to live with ‘white families” as it was thought that aboriginal people‚ especially children were vulnerable to influence and could be easily persuaded to live through the ways of “white people”
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Identity and Belonging journal 2013 Personal Identity __________________________ is good at: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. _________________________ is not: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. _________________________ finds it difficult to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Five things very important to __________________________: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. THINGS THAT MAKE ME‚ ME Growing Up Asian in Australia Story title: _______________________________________________________
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Short essay – We have all heard of the stolen generation in Australia’s history‚ and know of the issues and problems the indigenous Australians faced and although modern times for indigenous Australians are a lot better than previous times‚ they are still faced with many issues. These include education leading onto high unemployment‚ remoteness of some living lands‚ problems proving rightful lands and culture clashes of today. However some solutions I think will work are mentioned later on‚ which
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The discovery of Australia by the English on January 26th 1788 was a terrific day for the aboriginals. White settlement meant the colonization of Australia. Education is one of the main things in life and if you don’t have that you’re going to end up on the street. That’s where white settlement comes in‚ The British built schools for most aboriginal children‚ they tough them how to eat properly‚ speak English‚ math’s and how to build things. Health is a main necessity in life and if you don’t
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precedent for the concept of monetary reparations. Residential Schools and the Crime of Genocide Although the term genocide was raised during the hearings of the Royal Commission‚ the remark was dismissed as a "rhetorical flourish‚" It can be argued‚ however‚ that this dismissal was at least premature. Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide to include the causing of serious bodily or
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Change and Continuity The ’Stolen Generations’ are the generations of Aboriginal children taken away from their families by governments‚ churches and welfare bodies to be brought up in institutions or fostered out to white families. The Governments‚ churches and welfare bodies controlled the aboriginal people from where they could live‚ where they could work‚ and what kinds of jobs they could do‚ who they could associate with and who they could marry. The indigenous children were often forced from
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Rodolfo Paisley‚ Fiona. “Race and Remembrance: Contesting Aboriginal Child Removal in the Inter War Years.” Accessed on: 8th April‚ 2010 at: http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/archive/Issue-November-1997/paisley.html Read‚ Peter. The Stolen Generations: The Removal of Aboriginal Children in New South Wales 1883 -1969 . Accessed on 7th April‚ 2010 from: http://www.daa.nsw.gov.au/publications/StolenGenerations.pdf Stannner‚ W.E.H and Barwick‚ Diane. “Not By Eastern Windows Only: Anthropological
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