Prime Minister Rudd read out some parliamentary excerpts during the apology where it was explicitly stated that it was a tactic to wipe out the Aboriginal peoples by breeding them out.
I really must get around to watching the whole thing, I've only seen the actual apology bit. That sounds pretty damning, if not surprising.
I am constantly surprised by the recentness too, that it was people on the borderline between my parents and grandparents generation doing the stealing (and the borderline between my parents and mine getting stolen) They really, really should have known better by then.
I think people think this sort of thing is "too depressing and/or controversial" to teach children *mutters*
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I really must get around to watching the whole thing, I've only seen the actual apology bit. That sounds pretty damning, if not surprising.
I am constantly surprised by the recentness too, that it was people on the borderline between my parents and grandparents generation doing the stealing (and the borderline between my parents and mine getting stolen) They really, really should have known better by then.
I think people think this sort of thing is "too depressing and/or controversial" to teach children *mutters*