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Victorian Board for the Protection of Aborigines is established and the removal of Indigenous Children under 18 years is allowed and ordered. The children can be taken and put into dormitories.
Slowly, over 66 years, up until 1935, similar legislations are passed in NSW, WA, QLD and SA. In the Northern Territory, the ‘Chief Protector’ of the children is the legal guardian of any half caste child. -
The Assimilation process is adapted by all of Australia. The process was created in order to “breed out” the Indigenous races and have one, White Australia. Many Indigenous Children are mentally and physically abused, forced to forget their culture and adapt to a new religion. Ultimately, they are told that their culture is wrong and that the White culture is supreme and authoritative.
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NSW becomes the first state to be banned from removing Aboriginal children from their families. The board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board.
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All states are banned from removing Indigenous children from their families and agencies are set up for the betterment of the Indigenous community.
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The first corporation (Link Up Aboriginal Corporation) is set up in order reunite and assist children who have been forcibly removed.
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Each state slowly adapts to the Aboriginal Child Placement Principle, to ensure each Indigenous child is placed into a Indigenous family.
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The Bringing Them Home Report is established, in order to recommend and make society aware of ways to repent and amend the forcible removal of children. The Australian Government invests in the program, however they refuse to apologise to the Indigenous society.
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The National Sorry Day Committee is formed and 26 May is marked as National Sorry Day.
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A “Sorry” Walk is held across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on 28 May. Over 250,000 people join in the Corroboree Walk.
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On behalf of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II, makes a formal apology to show condolence and respect for the families who were subject to the practices of enforced removal.
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The Australian Government completes the first memorial to the Stolen Generations in Canberra. This is known as Reconciliation Place.
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It is announced that National Sorry Day will be “National Day of Healing for All Australians” and the first Sorry Day is held on 25 May, in Lincoln Fields, London.
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Bruce Trevorrow becomes the first Indigenous Australian and first member of the Stolen Generations to sue SA due to the removal of him from his family. He is compensated $775,000.
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On behalf of the Australian Parliament, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, makes a national apology to the Stolen Generations and the pain that they were put through.
