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Year 10 History- Stolen Generation
By Aminta Martin 10.A
“We would have nice fairer children who, if they were girls, would marry white boys again and eventually the colour would die out. That was the original plan - the whole removal policy was based on the women because the women could breed.”
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Stolen Generation
Background
The term “Stolen Generations” refers to Aboriginal children forcefully removed from their families from 1890-1970. Initially this was without any legal authority which came later in the form of the Aborigines Protection Act (1909). “A 1994 survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics stated that one in every ten (10%) Aboriginal people aged over 25 had been removed from their families in childhood”(Korff, Jens. 'A Guide To Australia’S Stolen Generations'. Creative Spirits. N.p., 2015. Web. 3 Nov. 2015.). The Australian government hoped to end the Aboriginal culture within three generations by systematically ‘breading out’ Aborigines under the assimilation policy. Neglect was another reason commonly cited for these actions. The children were placed in foster families or institutions (missions and orphanages); many of these children were mentally, physically and emotionally abused.