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Jessica Lindsay Kimberley Stolen Generations Indigenous Sources


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||  ·  Our second CD "Stealem Away" was launched on Friday May 26th at our Broome headquarters in Barker Street. The newest project coming out of the Kimberley Stolen Generation, this fine compilation album embraces the many emotions of people taken from country, culture and language. It features contemporary artists, traditional players and sound scapes expressing the deep feelings and experiences of people removed from their families by previous government policies. Outstanding contributions have been made by Tahnee Carrie, Wayne Barker, Groovy Lips & the Yang, Alice Haines, Gina Williams, Sam Lovell, Greg Tait, Geoffrey Fletcher, Mark Bin Bakar, Trevor Jamieson and Charmaine Bennell. ||

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Resource 3 Stolen generations 2000 []

** National Film and sound archive  ** ** Ronin Films ** Darlene Johnson is one of Australia’s most promising and talented Indigenous filmmakers. She is from the Dunghutti tribe of the East coast of New South Wales. In 2000 Johnson wrote and directed “Stolen Generations”- her first hour-long television documentary. The film was nominated for an International EMMY Award as well as for Best Documentary at the 2000 AFI awards. This source contains Footage of Beagle Bay Mission. Daisy Howard tells her experience of being removed

Kimberley Stolen Generations Non Indigenous Sources Resource 4 **Below is the wording of federal Parliament's full apology to the Stolen Generations: ** "Today we honour the Indigenous peoples of this land, the oldest continuing cultures in human history. We reflect on their past mistreatment. We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were Stolen Generations – this blemished chapter in our nation’s history. The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia’s history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future. We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians. We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. For the pain, suffering and hurt of these Stolen Generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry. To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry. And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry. We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this apology be received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of the healing of the nation. For the future we take heart; resolving that this new page in the history of our great continent can now be written. We today take this first step by acknowledging the past and laying claim to a future that embraces all Australians. A future where this Parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again. A future where we harness the determination of all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us in life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity. A future where we embrace the possibility of new solutions to enduring problems where old approaches have failed. A future based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual responsibility. A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia."

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Open hearts: the Catholic Church and the stolen generation in the Kimberley. Resource 5

[]   I make this contribution today in the hope that those who have suffered at the hands of unjust government policies, policies in which the Church has assisted at times, will come to know that their deep sorrow finds a listening heart in the Church. To those who have suffered personal deprivation and hurt in Church institutions because of the effects of this policy, the Church of this Diocese [|unreservedly]   un·re·served     adj. //** 1. ** Not held back for a particular person: //  an unreserved seat. 

** 2. ** Given without reservation; unqualified:   unreserved praise. 

** 3. **  apologises. Further, She regrets the great suffering that continues in the hearts of some people and extends to them a compassionate wish for peace and reconciliation. This statement is part of the submission made in August 1996 by Bishop Christopher Saunders, Bishop of Broome and the Kimberley (in the north-west of [|Western Australia]  Western Australia,     state (1991 pop. 1,409,965), 975,920 sq mi (2,527,633 sq km), Australia, comprising the entire western part of the continent. It is bounded on the N, W, and S by the Indian Ocean. Perth is the capital.  <span style="background: oldlace; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; color: black; display: none; font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 2pt; padding-left: 2pt; padding-right: 2pt; padding-top: 2pt;"> ** ..... **  <span style="background: oldlace; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; display: none; font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 2pt; padding-left: 2pt; padding-right: 2pt; padding-top: 2pt;">**  Click the link for more information.  **   ). He was addressing the [|Bringing Them Home]  ** Bringing Them Home ** is the title of the Australian    "Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families"  //. Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and [|Torres Strait]  <span style="background: oldlace; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; color: black; display: none; font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 2pt; padding-left: 2pt; padding-right: 2pt; padding-top: 2pt;"> Torres Strait    (t ŏ r` ĭ z, –r ĭ s), channel, c.95 mi (153 km) wide, between New Guinea and Cape York Peninsula of Australia. It connects the Arafura and Coral seas. Islander children from their families. This was the searching inquiry, commissioned in 1995 by the Labour federal government, and administered by [|HREOC]   HREOC Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission  <span style="background: oldlace; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; color: black; display: none; font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; padding-bottom: 2pt; padding-left: 2pt; padding-right: 2pt; padding-top: 2pt;"> (Australia)    <span style="background: oldlace; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; color: black; display: none; font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 2pt; padding-left: 2pt; padding-right: 2pt; padding-top: 2pt;"> ** ..... ** <span style="background: oldlace; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; display: none; font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 2pt; padding-left: 2pt; padding-right: 2pt; padding-top: 2pt;">**  Click the link for more information. ** , the  [|Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission]   The ** Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission ** (HREOC) is a national independent statutory body of the Australian Government. It has the responsibility for investigating alleged infringements under Australia’s anti-discrimination legislation. <span style="background: oldlace; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; color: black; display: none; font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 2pt; padding-left: 2pt; padding-right: 2pt; padding-top: 2pt;"> ** ..... ** <span style="background: oldlace; border-bottom: black 1pt solid; border-left: black 1pt solid; border-right: black 1pt solid; border-top: black 1pt solid; display: none; font-family: 'AR JULIAN'; font-size: 8pt; line-height: 115%; padding-bottom: 2pt; padding-left: 2pt; padding-right: 2pt; padding-top: 2pt;">**  Click the link for more information. **  . The first instruction to the Commission was to:

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The commemorative 'silk' flower has been created as a national emblem of the Stolen Generations. This was initially proposed by members of the Kimberley Stolen Generation Aboriginal Corporation, and later endorsed by the National Sorry Day Committee. It is wholeheartedly supported by the Stolen Generations Alliance.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm; text-align: center;"> **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.kimberleystolengeneration.com.au/http://www.ki// ** **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.kimberleystoleneraon.com.au/mberleystolengeneration.com.au/ ** **<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 13pt; letter-spacing: 1.2pt; line-height: 115%;">http://www.kimberleystolengeneration.com.au/ ** code Trace the past laws, practices and policies which resulted in the code code Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from code code Their families by compulsion, duress or undue influence, and the code code effects of those laws, practices and policies. (1) code

The Sisters of St John of God used these words, in part:

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Other sections of the submission made by Bishop Saunders of the Diocese of Broome include:

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**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">National Apology: The Kimberley Perspective ** [|**http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/02/12/2160623.htm?site=kimberley**] By Psembi Kinstan **The 13th of February will be remembered as an important day in Australian history. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd officially apologized to all indigenous Australians for the actions of previous governments regarding the stolen generation.**
 * Pr **** L ** arge numbers of Kimberley children were forcibly removed from their families and taken to missions across Australia or Government run ration stations such as Moola Bulla near Halls Creek. The Kimberley Stolen Generation Aboriginal Corporation estimates the scale of the removal was so large within this region that by 1958 about 25 per cent of all Kimberley Aboriginal adults and 45 percent of all Kimberley Aboriginal children were living in missions. A delegation of Kimberley Aborigines was invited to Parliament house to witness the apology and they spoke to ABC Kimberley before departing from Broome airport. Derby resident Ruby Rose was one of the many people affected by the stolen generation. She was taken from Alice Springs to Croker Island, then moved to New South Wales then finally returned to Croker Island by boat, "we were the cargo in the boat, and the boys were in the first hull, the girls were in the second hull”. Indigenous leader Mark Bin Bakar sees the apology as the first step in a new process, and believes it will "allow the sore to heal" and allow many Australians to come to terms with the "social experiment". "The apology is about reconciliation. The apology is about allowing people to move on, and for people to not have to share and wear the pain themselves anymore". Several hundred people gathered in Broome at the historic picture gardens - a place that once segregated the cinema audience by colour. The mood of the crowd was one of expectation and happiness, but with overtones of sadness for those who had personally suffered. Dulcie Whitworth was taken as a small child in the early 1950s from her family on Carlton Hill Station, in the east Kimberley near Wyndham. She was sent to Broome and grew up at the Holy Child Orphanage. Dulcie says that too this day she has never found her family. While she felt good about the apology, it was too late to help her pain.

__<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif'; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Written explanation __ <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The Kimberley stolen generations <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;">The theme th <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">at draws these six resources of the stolen generations <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt;"> together <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> is the emotion that arises from every example. From Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s speech in 2008 formally apologising to the enormous amount of people affected by the past Governments policies, to the acknowledgment by the Catholic Church in 1996 of the role that they played in the systematic removal of children in the Kimberley region. This is a piece of history that is difficult to analyse without feeling. To tell any certain perspective involves emotive language. In my research I was astounded at the lack of information and resources surrounding the Kimberley stolen Generations in comparison to all other states and identified the extensive work load of Mark Bin Barker and the Kimberley Stolen Generation Corporation. They have produced their fourth album recently titled “remember me” as well as creating the national emblem of the stolen Generations, and provide the link-up services for people trying to find their families. Whether it is reading the victim’s personal stories or watching the Australian screen documentary, what ties this subject together is that it needs to be a national priority to expose this issue to the wider public in order to create a grand scale healing process. It is my belief that not enough has been done and that historians such as Windshcuttle who question the existence of the Stolen Generations are certainly not assisting the process.

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