Tag Archives: Stolen Generations

Lower house passes recognition bill on Sorry Day

By Tracker, February 13, 2013
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

NATIONAL: Aboriginal leader Mick Gooda hopes an Act of Recognition will pass parliament on the fifth anniversary of the apology to the Stolen Generations.

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National summit needed on Indigenous education: Rudd

By Tracker, February 8, 2013
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd before he delivered the apology to the Stolen Generations.

NATIONAL: Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has called for a national summit on Indigenous education on the fifth anniversary of the national apology to the Stolen Generations.

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Stolen Gen victims begin landmark compensation trial

By Tracker, February 5, 2013
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Members of the Stolen Generations have begun a five-week trial in the West Australian Supreme Court seeking compensation.

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Senate move could jeopardise Stolen Gen compo bid

By Brian Johnstone, January 29, 2013
Disendorsed Labor senator Trish Crossin.

NORTHERN TERRITORY: The decision by Prime Minister Julia Gillard to fast track Nova Peris into the Senate at the next election could jeopardise a bid to have the Commonwealth government compensate members of the Stolen Generations in the Northern Territory.

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Reparations… more than just a word

By Amy McQuire, March 20, 2012
Former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd before he delivered the apology to the Stolen Generations.

NATIONAL: Four years ago, he uttered the word that our people had waited too long to hear. On February 13, 2008, Kevin Rudd created history by saying “sorry” to members of the Stolen Generations, not once, but three times.

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Canada probes its Stolen Generations

By Amy McQuire, March 20, 2012

CANADA: A Truth and Reconciliation Commission into Canada’s Stolen Generations – the children who were forced from their families into Residential Schools – has handed down its interim report.

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Canada’s Stolen Generations report released

By Tracker, February 27, 2012

CANADA: A commission set up to examine a decades-long government policy that required Aboriginal Canadians to attend schools where students were stripped of their cultural identity says that the institutional abuse created a legacy of turmoil.

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We can be the “light on the hill”: Rudd

By Tracker, February 14, 2012

NATIONAL: The man who delivered the apology to the Stolen Generations wants the nation to become “a new light on the hill” for the rest of the world on reconciliation between Indigenous people and settlers.

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Reconciliation needs hard work: Rudd

By Tracker, February 13, 2012

NATIONAL: Speeches such as the national apology are not enough to achieve reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, Kevin Rudd says.

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Stolen Generations victim awarded compensation

By Amy McQuire, August 10, 2011
Stolen generations victim Neville Austin speaks to the media at the office of law firm Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne. Mr Austin read an apology given to him in writing from the Victorian government as part of a settlement over the circumstances of his separation from his mother in the 1960’s and 1970’s. (AAP IMAGE/JULIAN SMITH)

NATIONAL: NEVILLE Austin became only the second member of the Stolen Generations to receive compensation after he won a settlement this month for the 12 years of separation from his mother, under the past policies of forced removal.

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