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Victoria - Glossary Term
Stolen Generations
The Stolen Generations are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who, when they were children, were taken away from their families and communities as the result of past government policies. Children were removed by governments, churches and welfare bodies to be brought up in institutions, fostered out or adopted by white families. The removal of Aboriginal children took place from the early days of British colonisation in Australia. It broke important cultural, spiritual and family ties and has left a lasting and intergenerational impact on the lives and wellbeing of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Publications
Books
- VACCA: commemorating 25 years of service, Researched and written by Melissa Brickell, under the direction of Muriel Cadd, Chief Executive Officer, Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency, Preston, 2002. Details
- Boyce, J., For the record : background information on the work of the Anglican Church with Aboriginal children and directory of Anglican agencies providing residential care to children from 1830 to 1980, Anglicare Australia, Melbourne, 2003. Details
- Briskman, Linda, Home - still waiting: report of the Minajalku Aboriginal Corporation into Aboriginal children and the churches in Victoria, Researchers: Linda Briskman and Karen Mobourne, Minajalku Aboriginal Corporation, Thornbury, 1997. Details
- Briskman, Linda, The black grapevine: Aboriginal activism and the stolen generations, The Federation Press, Sydney, 2003. Details
- Deverall, Myrna; McFarlane, Ian, 'My heart is breaking': a joint guide to records about Aboriginal people in the Public Record Office of Victoria and the Australian Archives Victorian Regional Office, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, 1993. Details
- Dyer, Mollie, Room for one more: the life of Mollie Dyer, Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, East Melbourne, 2003. Details
- Edwards, C and Read P, The lost children: thirteen Australians taken from their Aboriginal families tell of their struggle to find their natural parents, Doubleday, Sydney, 1989. Details
- George, Karen, Finding your own way, Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia Inc., 2005. Details
- Haebich, A., Broken circles: fragmenting Indigenous families 1800-2000, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2000. Details
- Mellor, Doreen and Anna Haebich, Many voices: reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation, National Library of Australia, 2002. Details
- Nelson, E., Swain, S. and Grimshaw, P., Letters from Aboriginal women of Victoria 1867-1926, History Department, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 2002. Details
- Peart, Vicki, Faded footprints: walking the past, Ballarat and District Aboriginal Cooperative, 2005. Details
- Read, Peter, A rape of the soul so profound: the return of the Stolen Generations, Allen & Unwin, 1999. pp x-xi. Details
- Vicenti, Heather; Dickman, Deborah, Too Many Tears: an autobioigraphical account of stolen generations, Meme Media, St Albans, 2008. Details
Conference Papers
- Piggott, Michael and Sue McKemmish, 'Recordkeeping, Reconciliation and Political Reality', in Australian Society of Archivists Annual Conference, Sydney, August 2002, 2002. Details
Journal Articles
- Briskman, Linda, 'Beyond apologies: the Stolen Generations and the churches', Children Australia, vol. 26, no. 3, 2001, pp. 4-8. Details
Resources
Online Resources
- 'The Stolen Generations, a documentary collection', http://www.themonthly.com.au/files/stolen.pdf. Details
- 'The Stolen Generations', Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, https://aiatsis.gov.au/explore/stolen-generations. Details
- 'Stolen Generations', in Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies [website], http://aiatsis.gov.au/research/finding-your-family/before-you-start/stolen-generations. Details
- 'Bringing Them Home Oral History project', National Library of Australia, https://www.nla.gov.au/collections/what-we-collect/oral-history-and-folklore/bringing-them-home-oral-history-project. Details
- Signposts: a guide for children and young people in care in WA [Western Australia] from 1920, Department for Community Development, https://signposts.communities.wa.gov.au/. Details
- Connecting kin: a guide to help people separated from their families search for their records,
from their families. It provides information about where records are kept and how to access them., New South Wales Department of Community Services, 1998, https://clan.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/connectkin_guide.pdf. Details
- 'A Piece of the Story': National Directory of Records of Catholic organisations caring for children separated from their families, Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission & Australian Conference of Leaders of Religious Institutes, November 1999, https://cssa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/A-Piece-of-the-Story.pdf. Details
- ''Paul'', in Bringing Them Home: stories from the report, Australian Human Rights Commission, 2001, https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/bringing-them-home-paul-story. Details
- Bringing Them Home: stories from the report, Australian Human Rights Commission, 2001, https://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/stories-report. Details
- 'Where can I find records relating to Aboriginal women and children?', in First Ladies: finding records about women in Public Record Office Victoria, Australian Women's Archive Project and Public Record Office Victoria, 2004, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/fl/flsources02.htm. Details
- 'Ebenezer', in Mission Voices: Missions and Reserves., Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Film Victoria and Koorie Heritage Trust Inc., 2004, http://web.archive.org/web/20140515174606/http://www.abc.net.au/missionvoices/ebenezer/default.htm. Details
- 'Too Many Tears: document transcripts', Meme Media, 2008, http://www.toomanytearsbook.com/transcripts/. Details
- 'From Bruthen to Ballarat: Murray Harrison', in ABC Ballarat, 13 February 2008, http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/02/13/2161178.htm. Details
- 'Victoria: Legislation', in To remove and protect: laws that changed Aboriginal lives, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2008, https://aiatsis.gov.au/collection/featured-collections/remove-and-protect. Details
- Compass: the return of Jack Charles, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 2014, http://www.abc.net.au/compass/s4006223.htm. Details
- Balert Keetyarra of Uncle Jack Charles, Yoorrook Justice Commission, 26 April 2022, https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Balert-Keetyarra-Witness-Statement-of-Uncle-Jack-Charles-dated-26-April-2022-Exhibit-1-0.pdf. Details
- Gardiner-Garden, John, From Dispossession to Reconciliation, Research Paper 27, 1998-1999, Commonwealth of Australia, 29 June 1999. Details
- Gordon, Michael, 'Sorry not enough for stolen generations', in The Age, 13 February 2010, http://www.theage.com.au/national/sorry-not-enough-for-stolen-generations-20100212-nxkq.html. Details
- Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, Commonwealth of Australia, 1997, http://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/bringing-them-home-stolen-children-report-1997. Details
- Guide to Out-of-Home Care Services 1940-2000 - Volume Two: Data Base, with Department of Human Services, November 2001, https://www.childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au/sites/default/files/DHS.3004.011.0277.pdf. Details
- Manning, Corinne, A Helping White Hand' : Assimilation, Welfare and Victoria's Transitional Aboriginal Housing Policy, Labour History, 2004, http://www.jstor.org/stable/27516006?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents. Details
- Read, Peter, The Stolen Generations: The removal of Aboriginal children in New South Wales 1883 to 1969, New South Wales Department of Aboriginal Affairs, c.1980, https://www.aboriginalaffairs.nsw.gov.au/media/website_pages/research-and-publications/completed-research-and-evaluation/Stolen_Generations.pdf. Details
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- Front cover of the Bringing them home report (1997)
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