Risible rubbish and the delusions of the demented!?
Rhrosty.

The thousands that have left home to work in the mines and agricultural industry would much prefer their cultural (where they were brought up) homes. Instead they got off their backsides and made sacrifices in order to make a living for their families. Hmmm.

There is not a single shred of evidence of any 'stolen generations'. There does not exist any evidence that Aboriginal Australians should have any 'special' attachments to certain pieces of land than anyone else does; all humans enjoy personal space, and when that space changes due to circumstances beyond our control we soon get used to another and forget about the others. Who doesn't feel a kind of special attachment to 'their' office chair? This is simply more bilgerism from a trendy lefty long past his prime - if he ever had one.

Hi Cody,

I'm inclined to agree with you about a 'stolen' generation: children taken into care ? Yes, of course, just like for white kids. Mothers dying, fathers dying, or shooting through, families falling apart ? Yes, just like with white kids, perhaps a bit more frequently so a matter of degree.

The evidence from school records - at least from one major Aboriginal settlement - is that there was certainly no systematic removal of kids from families: in this particular settlement, with school records covering the period 1880-1966, a total of fewer than fifty children, out of eight hundred on the school roll in that time, were taken - almost always for a short time - into care. Almost every one was back in the community within a year. None were adopted out. None married white fellas, actually either.

Why were they taken into care ? In that period, forty women died leaving school-age children, usually from child-birth, but also from TB. Tuberculosis. A number of fathers died and the mothers - with young teenage daughters - re-married. Guess what happened.

What intriguing is WHEN this mostly happened: after the War - one can see from the school roll - the families with hard-working men left the settlement, to railway towns, forestry towns, etc., wherever infrastructure projects were happening. The more 'casual' families remained. So no surprise, when were most of those fifty-odd kids taken into care ?

The 1950s.

Another fact: that settlement had been set up as a Mission in 1859. When was the first police station in the area set up ? 1860 ? No. 1870 ? No.

1953.

Dear Mr Pilger

As you are stoutly anti-Western, and your views generally coincide with the world according to Putin-RT-Pravda.ru, you might enjoy this one:
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Vladimir Putin, wanting to get on the good side of voters, went to visit a school in Moscow to have a chat with the children. He talked about how Russia is a powerful nation and how he wanted the best for the people.

At the end of the talk, there was opportunity for questions. Little Sasha raised her hand and asked "I have two questions ."

Go ahead’ said Putin.

"Why did the Russians take Crimea? And Why are we sending troops to the Ukraine?"

Putin replied, "Good questions!" But just as he was about to answer, the bell rang, and the kids dispersed to Lunch.

When they returned from lunch, they sit back down and resumed for more questions.

Another girl, Misha, put her hand up and asked, "I have Four questions."

‘Go ahead’ replied Putin.

"My Questions are - Why did the Russians invade Crimea? Why are we sending troops to the Ukraine? Why did the bell go 20 minutes early? And Where is Sasha?"
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Hope you enjoyed that Mr Pilger?

I would also like to bring it to bilger's notice that the 1997 report conducted by Sir Ronald Wilson concluded that Aboriginal Australians were subjected to such horrific treatment and behaviours that 'they were an act of genocide . . . '. It is very, very strange that the same Ronald Wilson made no such comparison or reference when he was on the Board of Governor's of Sister Kate's, (1950s) where supposedly such atrocities took place . . .