The stolen generations has never stopped. I grew up in community where my people continue to be disproportionately impacted by the law. Where state surveillance is all too common.
Category: Stolen Generation
Former St Kilda great Gilbert McAdam has revealed that he offered columnist Andrew Bolt a chance to listen to his father’s story of being stolen.Bolt has continually used his platform to question the validity of the Stolen Generations, going as far as describing them as ‘preposterous and obscene’.Speaking on NITV’s Yokayi Footy, McAdam spoke about his family’s personal experience. “My dad is Stolen Generation… He got taken away cause he had white (skin),” he told fellow panelists.
Source: AFL legend Gilbert McAdam calls out Andrew Bolt over Stolen Generations | NITV
The truth is that Indigenous children are today being removed from their families at a rate that is far higher than at the time of Kevin Rudd’s apology
Alan Jones has not shied away from his position that Australia needs more stolen generations, saying the country was “pushing ideology up a hill” and that the nation’s children were losing as a result.
Source: Alan Jones stands by claim that Australia ‘needs more stolen generations’
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