• Definition of the term Genocide
• Brief overview of the Stolen Generation
• Arguments supporting the claim of genocide
• - Forcible removal and transfer of Aboriginal children
• - government intent
• -attempted eradication of native culture
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8xCLKGFcA0

Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

• Late 1800’s – 1970’s
• Children were forcibly removed from their communities and families
• Not allowed any contact with their parents

• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
• Intent by the Government to dilute or forcibly assimilate the
Aboriginal people of Australia
• Attempted eradication of native culture

• Who was taken?
-mostly girls
-those of mixed race
-1 in 3 (100,000)
• Why were they taken?
“protection”
-Assimilation
“Eliminate in future the fullblood and the white and one common blend will remain.
Eliminate the full blood and permit the white admixture and eventually the race will become white”

• How were they Taken?
• -With the aid of the police, hospital, social services
• -under the guise of protecting the children
• -only reason needed was the classification as the parents being Aboriginal
• Where were they taken?
-Foster homes
-Reform boarding schools designed to teach them
“white Ways”

• Aboriginal protection Act 1869
• Aborigines Protection Amending
Act 1915
• -Gave authority to remove
Aboriginal Children without having to establish in court that the children were neglected

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