...For many young Australians, little knowledge is known about Aboriginal issues. The Stolen Generations is a historical series of events well known to many young Australians. It was important as many Australian Government bodies, alongside with other establishments, were removing children from Aboriginal families and putting them into foster homes. It was expected to cause a disconnection of the culture and structure of Aboriginal clans. From tutorials and lectures, I think that Indigenous issues are often misunderstood. I understood lecture material as providing insight into surviving problems due to the Stolen Generations. This was seen with a disconnection from land and country, and a loss of identity for Indigenous Australian. This had led...
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...Century to the 1970’s many thousands of Aboriginal children were removed from their families. These children, now referred to as the Stolen Generations, faced ongoing emotional and social difficulties because of their removal from their families (Oxford Big Ideas, 2018). The youth, once taken from their homes, were brought up on reserves and missions. Subsequently, these children's lives were impacted severely from life without their families and biological parents. The forcible removal of the Stolen Generations was a gross violation of human rights and had many fundamental, social and emotional impacts on the life of the Indigenous Australians. PARAGRAPH 1: Life on the reserves, was more like a prison camp...
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...The stolen generations are numerous groups of Aboriginal children that were taken away from their families by the governments, churches and welfare bodies so that they could be brought up in institutions or fostered out into white families. Beginning in the 1830’s and ending in the early 1070’s, many children were taken from their families in an attempt to eradicate the Aboriginal race and culture. The Australian government’s policy and practice of removing the Aboriginal children from their families was put into practice during that time period. Removing children from their families from their families was considered official government policy in Australia until 1969. However, the practice had begun in the earliest days of European settlement, when children were used as guides, servants and farm...
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...The stolen generations “They used to belt them till they was knocked out, that’s how cruel they was.” – Personal testimony, Ruth Mackenzie. Ruth Mackenzie was one of the roughly estimated 6200 aboriginal children to be taken from their home in the stolen generations period. Mackenzie was one of the children the authorities targeted as she was of mixed decent, the government believed that children of mixed decent would be easier to assimilate into the “white” society. Many of the facts of what happened during the stolen generation period (ca. 1890 – 1970.) are not clear, as not much of it was recorded and what was recorded was attempted destroyed. However, many testimonies have been made by the stolen children. So what exactly did happen to them? To begin I think it is necessary to explain what the stolen generations mean. The stolen generations refer to period between 1890 and 1970 when aboriginal children were forcefully taken away from their families. The goal of this was that the aboriginal culture and people would die out, and since the culture is passed on from generation to generation taking the aboriginal children away was also taken away the aboriginals future. The children were normally either sent to institutions or white farms and households, what occurred in these places is hard to imagine....
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...children were removed from their families. These children, now referred to as the Stolen Generations, faced ongoing emotional and social difficulties because of their removal from their families (Oxford Big Ideas, 2018). The youth, once taken from their homes, were brought up on reserves and missions. Subsequently, these children's lives were impacted severely by life without their families and biological parents. The forcible removal of the Stolen Generations was a gross violation of human rights and had many fundamental, social and emotional impacts on the life of the Indigenous Australians. PARAGRAPH 1: Life on the reserves, was more like a prison camp than a home. The...
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...The government Policies of Protection and Assimilation impacted the lives of the Stolen Generation negatively, contradicting its main purposes. The term ‘Stolen Generations’ was used to describe the unwilling removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from 1901 to 1970. The children had to abandoned and reject their Aboriginality, assimilating into western values and norms. Consequently, many suffered from the trauma of losing their families, identity and culture. Also, the Aboriginal children had to cope with discrimination from the white community and the fact of having their human rights taken away. The loss of family and a motherly figure negatively impacted the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children. The Policy...
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...Report of the Stolen Generations Assessor Stolen Generations of Aboriginal Children Act 2006 February 2008 Depar tm e n t of P r e m i e r a n d C a binet Table of contents 1. 2. Introduction ...................................................... 2 Context of the legislation .......................................3 2.1 historical Context ................................................................... 3 2.2 Child Welfare and adoption laws .............................. 4 2.3 education policy and procedures ................................. 5 3. The Act ......................................................................7 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 4. 5. aboriginal person................................................................................. 7 eligible Categories................................................................................ 7 exclusion ..................................................................................................... 7 the stolen generations fund..................................................... 7 timeframes............................................................................................... 8 the stolen generations assessor............................................ 8 The assessment process..........................................9 Overview of applications.......................................11 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 6. source of applications..................................
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...[pic] A short history of the systematic Removal of Aboriginal Children from their Families in NSW. “Indigenous children have been forcibly separated from their families and communities since the very first days of the European occupation of Australia” obtained from the Bringing Them Home Report Who are the Stolen Generations The term ‘stolen generations” is in reference to those Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed, as children, from their families and communities by government, welfare and affiliated church organisations. These children were systematically placed into institutional care or with non-Indigenous foster families. Although it can be argued that the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children began as early as the very first days of European occupation in Australia, the forced removal policies and legislation began in the mid 1800s and continued until the 1970s. There is current discourse in Aboriginal communities supporting the notion that the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and communities continues to exist today in the form of complexities associated with current government policies and legislation and the over representation of Aboriginal children in out of home care. How and why do we know the forcible removal of Aboriginal children occurred in NSW? New South Wales, along with other Australian state and territory governments have acknowledged past practices and policies...
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...WRITING TASK- Exposition argument In this task you are to write an argument (800- 1,000 words) in response to the following question. • ‘The Australian government were justified in removing Aboriginal children from their families.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement The Stolen Generation has had a traumatic effect on Aboriginal people, their identities and links with their Aboriginal culture. These tremendous effects are still continuing towards the Aboriginal society through the policies and practices that were in place at the time. The Stolen Generation destroyed numerous Aboriginals lives. The damage done to them has not been redeemed, even after many years. Beginning in the 1830's and ending in the early 1970's, many children were taken from their families in an attempt to eradicate the Aboriginal race and culture, ordered by the Australian Government at the time. The Government’s policies and practices regarding the removal of children, their treatment and the continuing effects cannot be resolved, despite the occurrence of the National Inquiry. The Australian Government's policy and practice of removing aboriginal children from their families was in place throughout the country during the 1830's until the 1970's. There was a massive impact on Aboriginals with one particular policy the Australian Government introduced, the policy of ˜Assimilation'. This policy encouraged many Aboriginal people to give up their traditional lifestyle, move in white Australian...
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...The Aborigines Protection Amending Act of 1915 B) Argue against the Protection Act I have chosen to argue question B, because I am against The Protection Act. The protection act was passed in 1897, where the chief protector, who was in charges and their guarding, he was allowed to remove children from their families. In 1971 the Aboriginal Protection Act stopped. The act gave the power to remove any child without any court order nor parental consent. The act provided full control, and therefore the Aborigines would lose their freedom. The government removed Aboriginal children from their families and where starting the process that created the Stolen Generation, also known as the Stolen Children. The article The Stolen Generation states that; “1 in 10 of all Aboriginal children were removed from their families in an effort to civilize them by assimilation into white society”, this entire quote is mindboggling because the word “civilize” is used derogatory as if Aborigines need taming like a wild animal. The mere fact that the government believes that the Aborigines so desperate need help makes them conceited. They were taken children from their families, and making them white because they though that it would improve their lives. Through a misguided attempt at helping the Aborigines, the government may have caused more damage than good. The whites thought that the Aborigines needed help to survive and that is just unreasonable because the Aborigines have been in Australia...
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...The Stolen Generation in Australia The Aboriginal people lived long on their land without any contact from the Europeans. They are believed to first arrive in Australia between 42,000 and 48,000 years ago (Beck). They managed to live in often inhospitable conditions unbearable for the inhabitants of the “old continent”. The Aborigines did not differ only in their living conditions, but also in their way of living in general, their culture. The aboriginal culture was based on several principles which did not come to understanding when the Europeans first arrived. Perhaps the most essential aspect of the Aboriginal culture is the “kinship obligation”, when everyone in the tribe is expected to perform certain tasks without being asked to (Encyclopædia Britannica 4). The white society, in contrast with the Australian indigenous people, was based (and still is) on the concept of private membership, something absolutely unknown in Australia prior to the European settlements. The irreconcilable differences led, in consequence, to clashes and misunderstandings between the two cultures. The Europeans, however, regarded themselves superior. Lloyd describes the situation in Australia after the arrival of the European settlers as being based on “the idea of Aborigines as an inferior ‘doomed race,’ superseded by more highly developed, more enlightened Europeans” (Lloyd). No matter whether this claim was legitimate or not, it had damaging consequences. James Cook landed in Botany Bay in...
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...ASSIGNMENT COVER SHEET Electronic or manual submission UNIT CODE: SWK2111 TITLE: Aboriginal Histories of the Present | NAME OF STUDENT FAMILY NAME: SMITH FIRST NAME: MARY | STUDENT ID NO.10355079 | NAME OF LECTURER Dr. Gus Henderson | DUE DATE11/3/2016 | Topic of assignment Presentation-personal stories | Group or tutorial (if applicable) GRoup 11 | Course Bachelor of Social Work | CAMPUSOFF | I certify that the attached assignment is my own work and that any material drawn from other sources has been acknowledged. This work has not previously been submitted for assessment in any other unit or course.Copyright in assignments remains my property. I grant permission to the University to make copies of assignments for assessment, review and/or record keeping purposes. I note that the University reserves the right to check my assignment for plagiarism. Should the reproduction of all or part of an assignment be required by the University for any purpose other than those mentioned above, appropriate authorisation will be sought from me on the relevant form. | OFFICE USE ONLY | If handing in an assignment in a paper or other physical form, sign here to indicate that you have read this form, filled it in completely and that you certify as above. Signature Date | | OR, if submitting this paper electronically...
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...their family, yet normally today it isn’t as forceful as it was in the movie with Mr. Neville. I think that for both Indian and aboriginal communities are treated differently than others. Which may be why there is a problem with crime rates, unemployment, and alcoholism. Meaning that even though natives are integrated into society and have their own communities, they are at times still treated badly by stereotypes and hate from others. Thus, making it hard for the natives to apply for jobs and receive education, which if not obtain could lead to unemployment and the stress from that could lead to alcoholism. Also, as using the movie as an example, Neville was trying to “Help” by washing away the native genes and culture, so by the 3rd generation of offspring, the kids would be more like the Caucasian settlers. So, for example, when looking an child who was has a native background, yet closely resembles a Caucasian, their parents and grandparent could’ve been part of the brainwashing from when they were abducted from their family. ...
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...The stolen generation was a crucial time in Australia’s history. It was a time when the government took Aboriginal and Torres strait islander children from their families without any consent. Although they were the first people of Australia they weren’t considered as humans by the government agencies, churches and welfare bodies. After they were taken from their families they were placed in institutions, reserves, dormitories or missions where they were taught Christianity to destroy aboriginal culture. Others were fostered or sent to orphanages with non-indigenous families during the years 1871-1965. The purpose for this was to destroy aboriginal culture and to raise them the way their parents could not. However, around the 1940’s they changed the purpose to assimilation but others still trained them as domestic servants and continued that purpose The Cootamundra girls home was an institute for aboriginal and Torres strait islander girls located in NSW. They discovered Cootamundra in a dis-used hospital building by the aboriginal protection board. The purpose for this was to train them as indentured servants such as clean and cook. They were offered to go school but school wasn’t the main priority for the for them in the institution. The Cootamundra girls home started in the year 1911 and ran for 58 years....
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...Ieesh M. Irving TANTH 365/ Autumn 2014 Film Response Watching Rabbit Proof Fence was not only enlightening but also appalling to have seen. I never heard of the atrocities that the aborigines experienced at the hands of the British government prior to this movie. The British government took oppression to another level. This was the story of how Molly, her sister Daisy, and cousin Gracie were stolen from their family and their dangerous expedition of returning home to their family. It features Mr. A.O. Neville, the Chief Protector of Aborigines, as the evil antagonist who believed that his mission was to protect the aborigines from themselves. This story told of some of the countless people that were part of “The Stolen Generation”, which are the children, which were labeled half-caste, that were taken from their Aborigine parent by the Australian government. This removal occurred between the early 1900’s up until the 1970’s. Not only did the Australian government The story begins in 1931 in west Australia. This is the time the Aborigines Act granted the government the authority to act as a legal guardian of every Aborigine in west Australia. This meant the government had control of who the Aborigines can meet or marry and where they work and lived. This gave Mr. Neville the power to remove half-caste children from their families. As a mother, I think that would be the cruelest thing you can do to a person; take their baby away from them. It would be easier to die rather...
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