The Stolen Generation - Implications of Australian law on the children of the stolen generation.
Date Submitted: 03/31/2001 09:32:33
Category: / History / World History
Length: 4 pages (1028 words)
Category: / History / World History
Length: 4 pages (1028 words)
(OHP 1)
Bessy Flower was born in 1943 and at the age of 19 months was
forcibly removed from her mother's arms in the South-West of
Western Australia. Bessy spent 14 years of her life at the
Annesfield native institution where she was refused correspondence
with her parents and suffered ongoing sexual abuse. Not to mention
malnutrition and humiliation.
In 1788, aboriginal children like Bessy were first taken from
their families and placed in missions and institutions.(OHP 2)
But, it …
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…the path to reconciliation.
It is not until the 'stolen generation' receive their compensation
and the Australian Aborigines receive their apology, that the job
of reconciliation in our multicultural society will become easier
and possible.
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"The legacy of the ethnocentric views of "White Australia" have
had enormous repercussions for race relations in Australia. This
legacy has left Australia with the difficult, some would say
almost impossible, job of reconciliation in a multicultural
society".
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