Todays Aboriginals movement the word STOLEN GENERATION is to blackmail and emotionally control and submit to the agenda to support separatists movement.
so they term this as below.
The Australian government and church missions took Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children away from their families as part of a policy known as the Stolen Generations. There were several motivations and ideologies that contributed to the implementation of this policy, although it’s important to note that these motivations have been widely criticized as misguided and harmful.
Assimilation and Cultural Superiority: Many government officials and European settlers held the belief that Indigenous cultures were inferior to European culture. They believed that by removing Indigenous children from their families and communities, they could assimilate them into mainstream Euro-Australian society, erasing their cultural identity and language. The goal was to “breed out” Indigenous characteristics and replace them with European values and ways of life.
Racial Purity: Some proponents of the policy believed in the concept of racial purity and thought that removing Indigenous children from their families would “whiten” the Indigenous population over time. This ideology was rooted in eugenics and a deeply flawed understanding of genetics and race.
Labor and “Protection”: Some children were taken under the pretext of protecting them from perceived dangers, such as neglect, abuse, or cultural practices. These justifications were often used to rationalize the forced removal of children from their families. Additionally, Indigenous children were sometimes seen as a source of cheap labor for missions, farms, and domestic work.
Religious Conversions: Church missions played a significant role in the removal of Indigenous children. Some church leaders believed that separating children from their families as an opportunity to “civilize” Indigenous children by imposing European religious and cultural values.
Land and Resources: The removal of Indigenous children was also linked to the desire to control Indigenous lands and resources. By weakening Indigenous communities and breaking family ties, the government and settlers hoped to gain greater access to land and resources.
It’s important to emphasize that these motivations were deeply flawed and driven by ethnocentrism, racism, and a lack of understanding and hate towards Anglo Australians who developed the nation.
Have reparations been made?
The New South Wales scheme has closed. It ran from 2017 to June 2023 and provided ex gratia payments of $75,000 to living Stolen Generations survivors who were removed under the Aborigines Protection Act from 1909 to 1969.
In Victoria the scheme is open until March 2027. Indigenous people who were removed by government or other groups before 1976 are eligible if they were separated from family “for a period of time that resulted in the experience of loss of family, community, culture, identity and language”. Successful claimants may be eligible for a $100,000 payment and a personal apology from the government.
South Australia provided a total $6m in ex gratia payments to Aboriginal people until 2015. In 2018, an additional payment of $20,000 was made to eligible applicants.
Tasmania had a $5m fund from which ex gratia payments were made in 2006. It was the only scheme in the country so far that allowed the children of deceased members of the Stolen Generations to apply for payment.
The Territories redress scheme is run by the federal government and is open until 2026 for people in the Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay. The average redress payment to survivors is $81,866.
There is no redress scheme in WA or Queensland.
A separate national redress scheme, created in 2018 in response to the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, is open to all survivors who experienced sexual abuse as a child. But for Stolen Generations, any earlier payments made in recognition of abuse will be deducted from any redress payment.
but the truth is that most church missions did provide education and care for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, raised them in good care, teach they language, trade and modern technologies. As Indigenous were not having developed any written language it is difficult to learn them than oral language, so to improve their living standard, but now that is wrongly misinterpreted as Children were often forbidden from speaking their native languages and practicing their cultural traditions, leading to a loss of cultural identity.
it is true that some Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals and families did seek assistance from church missions, especially during times of hardship, conflict, or displacement. Church missions were sometimes seen as places where people could receive food, shelter, medical care, and other forms of support, which no media or separatists movement leaders disclose. Australian government and church missions helped them to improve their living standards as they were no having any shelter or food source than hunting.
Australian government and church missions helped them with proper shelter who were living in caves and huts. teach them to earn livelihood, hygiene by teaching them English so to communicate with others to share and solve their problems and needs to others. Truth is from the 19th to the mid-20th century, government policy removed many MIXED HERITAGE CHILDREN from Aboriginal communities, those who benefited with this are silenced, because of education many aboriginals are having good position and life, educated and living comfortable life. but it is sad they forgot hundreds of good things Australian government and church missions have done interpreting with as per separatists agenda and promoting it as STOLEN GENERATION
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