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The Stolen GenerationThe Stolen Generationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZtOIsgBqQ
The Stolen GenerationThe Stolen Generationhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZtOIsgBqQ
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• 1881: New South Wales
Protector of Aborigines –
Aboriginals forced to live on
reserves with no legal rights
and condemned to poverty.
• Between 1915 and 1939 any
station manager or policeman
could take children from their
parents.
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• Aboriginal Day of Mourning, led by leading activist, William Cooper.
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1909 NSW Aborigines Protection Act:
1: Control of money for assisting Aborigines
2: Distribute blankets and clothing to Aborigines
3: Have custody of Aboriginal children and educate them
4: Manage reserves
5: Supervise all matter affecting Aborigines
6: Remove from the reserve any Aborigines who should be earning their own living.
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• In New South Wales alone more than 10 000 children were taken
from their families.
• White authorities went to great lengths to break the cultural and
family bonds between parents and children.
• In 1921 a Northern Territory Aboriginal children’s home housed 52
children in three iron sheds behind the local hotel.
• At the age of 14 most children left the mission of government
institution. Education for aboriginal children viewed as futile.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YouNSLayA&feature=related
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The United Nations Convention of 1948 defines genocide as any of the
following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in
part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group:
• (a) Killing members of the group;
• (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
• (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to
bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
• (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
• (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWjGteDg9VE&feature=related
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• With your own knowledge, use of the textbook and
sources from the N.C.H.E website, do you argue that the
policies of the Australian government and the resulting
‘stolen generation’ was a form of genocide?
• National Centre for History Education – Ozhistorybites, Issue 2.
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• Movie - Rabbit Proof Fence:
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZtOIsgBqQ
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWjGteDg9VE&feature=related
• Marjorie Woodrow history - Member of the Stolen Generation: • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YouNSLayA&feature=related