Class Year
2024
Document Type
Review
Date of Creation
Spring 2021
Department 1
History
Abstract
From 1910 to 1970, the Australian government embarked on a policy of Aboriginal child removal which sought to acculturate Aborigine children of mixed descent into white Australian society. The 1997 report, Bringing Them Home, records the individual testimonies of hundreds of victims of child removal and argues that prolonged familial separation caused irreparable damage to native Australian communities. Carmel Bird’s edited version of the report, The Stolen Children: Their Stories, was published in 1998 to disseminate the report's findings and advocate for legislative action. Her book includes the stories of seventeen individuals and responses to the original report from prominent politicians and historians.
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Recommended Citation
Wildgruber, Peter U., "The Stolen Children: Their Stories: Aboriginal Child Removal Policy and Consequences" (2021). Student Publications. 926.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/926
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Comments
Written for HIST 228: Modern Australia