Who authored the Bringing Them Home report?
Sir Ronald Wilson
The inquiry was primarily conducted by Sir Ronald Wilson, President of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, and Mick Dodson, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner.
How do I cite the Bringing Them Home report?
APA (6th ed.) Australia., & Wilkie, M. (1997). Bringing them home: Report of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Sydney: Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission.
Why was the Bringing Them Home report published?
The report was the result of a national inquiry that investigated the forced removal of Indigenous children from their families. Many children suffered harsh, degrading treatment (including sexual abuse) and were frequently indoctrinated to believe Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were inferior.
Who wrote removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families?
The Stolen Generations refers to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who were removed from their families between 1910 and 1970. This was done by Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, through a policy of assimilation.
What was the aim of the apology?
The practice was genocidal in its intent insofar as it aimed at assimilating those children into non-Indigenous, ‘European’ culture – thereby accelerating the disappearance of Aboriginal cultures, communities and, eventually, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people themselves.
Who started the Stolen Generation?
The Stolen Generations (also known as Stolen Children) were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments.
What was the apology to the stolen generation?
On 13 February 2008, the Parliament of Australia issued a formal apology to Indigenous Australians for forced removals of Australian Indigenous children (often referred to as the Stolen Generations) from their families by Australian federal and state government agencies.
When did Kevin Rudd say sorry?
On 13 February 2008, then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd moved a motion of Apology to Indigenous Australians. His apology was a formal apology on behalf of the successive parliaments and governments whose policies and laws “inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians”.
What stopped the stolen generation?
NSW Aborigines Protection Board
The NSW Aborigines Protection Board loses its power to remove Indigenous children. The Board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board and is finally abolished in 1969.
Who stole the Stolen Generation?
What caused the Stolen Generation?
Since colonisation, numerous government laws, policies and practices resulted in the forced removal of generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families and communities across Australia.
Why are they called the Stolen Generation?
Between 1910 and the 1970s*, many First Nations children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies. The generations of children removed under these policies became known as the Stolen Generations.
What was the report of bringing them home?
Bringing them home : report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families Australian Human Rights Commission [Sydney] 1997 National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families (Australia).
Who was the chairman of the Bringing Them Home report?
Cover of the Bringing Them Home report Also known as Stolen Generation Outcome Bringing Them Home report (1997) Parliam Inquiries National Inquiry into the Separation of Commissioners Sir Ronald Wilson Mick Dodson
Why was the Australian report Bringing Them Home important?
Bringing Them Home is the Australian Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. The report marked a pivotal moment in the controversy that has come to be known as the Stolen Generations .
Who was the Commissioner of bringing them home?
Bringing them home : report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families / [Commissioner: Ronald Wilson] Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Sydney 1997