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Why do our governments and public institutions defame Australia by embracing an embellished 'Stolen Generations' narrative? : Comments

By Brendan O'Reilly, published 17/11/2021

Every nation has a skeleton or three in its history cupboard. Australia is no different, except that in recent decades we have not only proclaimed our culpability to the world but have also exaggerated our crimes.

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Child removal continues to this day for both aboriginal and non-aboriginal families. We could have 'stolen generations' centuries from now. I thought that adults that were formerly such children in Victoria at least were to get $300k compensation. Many seem to be healthy and well educated which may not have been the case had they not been moved. That means they want reparations for being helped if not saved. Next badly injured trauma victims might sue ambulances since they didn't need help.
Posted by Taswegian, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 8:18:58 AM
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For the answer, you need look no further than our cowardly political class and it's obsession with loud, nasty minorities.

The subject has been too done-to-death to warrant three pages.
Posted by ttbn, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 8:30:55 AM
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"Charles Perkins was the son of an Alice Springs woman who was deserted by her husband after giving birth to her 11th child, and who begged a priest to at least give her brightest boy an education."
I can personally attest to the truth of that statement. It was told to me by Perkins' cousin who grew up with him at a school at The Old Telegraph Station at the time of the actual event. He certainly wasn't disadvantaged by being "stolen".

Perkins was supposed to be the son of a Kalkadoon man, but I wonder how he got the surname of Perkins. Perhaps his daughter Rachel can explain that.
David
Posted by VK3AUU, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 9:09:22 AM
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The starting point for any rational debate has to be the acknowledgement that the state has a duty of care for children.
Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu has been exposed as a travesty by world renown anthropologist Professor Peter Sutton and archaeologist Keryn Walshe in Farmers or Hunter-Gatherers? The Dark Emu Debate
Posted by Leslie, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:22:02 AM
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Thank you, thank you, Brendan O'Reilly

Goebbels once famously said that "The bigger the lie, the more people will tend to believe it."

The validity of this master propagandist was born out by the whole, sorry, so called "stolen generation(s)" saga. It is wonderful to see that once again, somebody is taking the time to re examine this BIG LIE, how it came about, and why so many people wanted to believe it.

The fact that the whole thing was a fabrication based upon a complete misrepresentation of historical events, is born out by the indisputable fact that every so called "stolen generations" compensation court case has fallen flat on it's face. The only case which is claimed to be a genuine case, which was won by the plaintiff, had nothing to do with any claimed desire for genocide, or "breeding out the black". It was the result of an overly zealous child welfare officer who was convinced that the child was neglected, (probably because she had seen too many aboriginal kids who were neglected) and who broke South Australian law by removing the child from it's parents.

This lie equates with the Nazis claim that the Jews burned down the Reichstag. How this monstrous lie was invented, propagated, and widely accepted by so many people IS the issue that should be taught to our kids in history lessons school. Knowing how easy it is for a small minority of influential people with hidden agendas to create a completely false narratives would pay huge dividends in the future, as our young could be inoculated from unquestionably accepting propaganda from totalitarians of either the right or the left.

As a matter of fact, I thought that was the whole point of teaching them history.
Posted by LEGO, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 11:51:19 AM
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Just a lucrative bandwagon enabled & kept running by insipid Labor supporting incompetent bureaucrats !
Posted by individual, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:18:12 PM
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