Content tagged with Stolen Generations
Aboriginal Personal Stories of Life in South Australian Homes, Orphanages: The story of Veronica Brodie
Please note that this blog contains the images and voice of someone who has passed away. This post is dedicated to the thousands of stolen...
Blog post - 12 Sep 2018
Finding families on film
It’s a Long Road Back DVD cover This year marks 10 years since the National Apology to Australia’s Stolen Generations, 20 years since the...
Blog post - 3 Apr 2018
Sorry Books pages
The Sorry Books are a powerful record of the personal responses of Australians to the unfolding history of the Stolen Generations. They are a “people...
Gallery - 12 Feb 2018
Family history month
National Family History Month is held in Australia every August, but at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies...
News - 4 Aug 2017
Permeable boundaries: The Stolen Generations, former child migrants and forgotten Australians
Considering as its case study the federally-funded Find and Connect Web Resource, this paper will discuss the challenges which occur when the reality...
Presentation - 7 Jul 2017
Koolark koort koorliny: reconciliation, art and storytelling in an Australian Aboriginal community
In Nyungar Country, in the south-west corner of Western Australia, reconciliation has taken a significant step forward as the whole community expe...
News - 20 Jun 2017
Bringing them home
On 26 May 1997 the former Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission’s (HREOC) National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal Children from...
Explore article - 25 May 2017
Time to hit the National Reconciliation Week Trail
To celebrate this year’s National Reconciliation Week (NRW), Australia’s national cultural institutions and Reconciliation Australia have...
News - 24 May 2017
Family History Unit at the Queanbeyan Heritage Festival
On April 21st 2017, PJ Williams and I were fortunate enough to attend the Queanbeyan Heritage Festival to promote the work of the Family History Unit...
Blog post - 22 May 2017
Alice's daughter: lost mission child
In 1954, aged three, Rhonda Collard-Spratt was taken from her Aboriginal family and placed on Carnarvon Native Mission, Western Australia. Growing up...
Publication or resource - 6 Apr 2017
Alice's daughter: lost mission child
In 1954, aged three, Rhonda Collard-Spratt was taken from her Aboriginal family and placed on Carnarvon Native Mission, Western Australia. Growing up...
Publication or resource - 6 Apr 2017
Alice's daughter: lost mission child
In 1954, aged three, Rhonda Collard-Spratt was taken from her Aboriginal family and placed on Carnarvon Native Mission, Western Australia. Growing up...
Publication or resource - 6 Apr 2017
Alice's daughter: lost mission child
In 1954, aged three, Rhonda Collard-Spratt was taken from her Aboriginal family and placed on Carnarvon Native Mission, Western Australia. Growing up...
Publication or resource - 5 Apr 2017
My Brown Skin Baby: The first anthem of the Stolen Generation
Bob Randall in 1971. Image from the AIATSIS Collection IDENTITY.003.BW-N05709_12a ‘Tjilpi’ Bob Randall (1934-2015) was a Yankunytjatjara...
Blog post - 4 Apr 2017
Explore the Sorry Books
The Sorry Books are a powerful record of the personal responses of Australians to the unfolding history of the Stolen Generations. They are a “...
Explore article - 8 Mar 2017
The Referendum Australia Had to Have
Exhibition - 15 May 2015
Link-Up Diary
A film about the effects of the New South Wales government's long-term practice of forced removal of Aboriginal children. It takes the form of a...
Publication or resource - 12 Feb 2015
It's a Long Road Back
Between 1883 and 1969, approximately 6000 Aboriginal children in New South Wales were taken from their families and put into institutions run by the...
Publication or resource - 12 Feb 2015
Stolen Generations
FaHCSIA engaged AIATSIS to conduct a Stolen Generations Research Project. The project will consolidate existing data sets on the number, location,...
Research project - 11 Feb 2015
The Limitations of Litigation in Stolen Generations Cases
The purpose of this Discussion Paper is to review the progress of litigation by members of the Stolen Generations before the courts in Australia. The...
Publication or resource - 4 Feb 2015