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 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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The impacts that the Stolen Generation had on Indigenous people was that the Assimilation policy failed to improve the lives of Indigenous children by adapting them in white society. White society still refused to accept Indigenous children as equals even after stripping the children of their Indigenous heritage. Even children that were considered ‘half-caste’ were rejected‚ even though their skin colour was lighter and made easier for them to blend in. Many children that were placed in state
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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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A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large group of people‚ especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. The Stolen Generations and genocide in Rwanda were both terrible and horrific but differ in who the perpetrators were‚ what the end goal was‚ and how it was resolved. Every genocide is committed by a person or group of people‚ whether it be the government‚ different tribes‚ different races‚ different religions‚ etc. The genocide in Rwanda was started by extremists of Rwanda’s
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AL375 The Stolen Generations The Aboriginal people of Australian and the invading Europeans have a complex and troublesome past extending back to the European colonisation of Australia. Governmental policy in relation to the Aboriginal people has greatly changed over time. Unfortunately‚ until around the 1970s‚ the Aboriginals were regarded as inferior beings unworthy of basic human rights and‚ at times‚ life itself. One such time period was the Stolen Generations where tens of thousands of
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Forced removal The forced removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families was official government policy from 1909 to 1969. However the practice took place both before and after this period. Governments‚ churches and welfare bodies all took part. The removal policy was managed by the Aborigines Protection Board (APB). The APB was a government board established in 1909 with the power to remove children without parental consent and without a court order. Children
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