This humbug is trotted out by mostly mixed-race activists, to win compensation for what has happened around the world? I speak with some authority here given my Celtic forbears include dispossessed scot forbears and Irish political prisoners, dispossessed by cruel laws that arbitrarily made them subjects of a foreign monarchy!

And taxed to the point of dispossession, then sent to workhouses as intrinsically, cheap labour! Working for pennies to make their rich English masters even richer!

My Scottish forbears were treated as little more than goods and chattels that could be used as it pleased their English masters. And thus was also the case for my Irish ancestors. Every nation on the planet has been conquered at some point and the resident population butchered or enslaved or assimilated.

Decency finally prevailed when the geneva convention was signed and the time for any post-war, conqueror occupation, limited.

Many of the narratives of so-called stolen generations are in complete conflict with official records and seem to be further embellished with every generation?

And they seem to want to vent their spleen on whites who simply weren't there, took no part in any of the outcomes, but are held to account only because their skins are not black. And that's a form of racism?

None of the atrocities committed by blackfellas on blackfellas is routinely trotted out, because there's no money to be made/votes to be gained with the endless retelling, embellishment and exaggeration?
Alan B.

Interesting use of the word defame in the title of this essay.
Never mind that in law you can only defame individual living human beings. You cannot defame groups of people however small or large.

And certainly not Australia which is only the name of a particular piece of very large real estate on planet earth, which was not in any way named as such by the Aboriginal inhabitants prior to the arrival of the white invaders.
Nor by any other human beings that knew of its existence prior to the arrival of the white settlers who were of course really invaders. Traders from the islands and countries to the north of the continent, and other earlier European explorers.

All "official" his-stories are of course weapons.
http://www.historyisaweapon.com
All official his-stories are fabrications based on the golden rule: namely those who have the most gold and of course superior weapons and who won the political conflicts in their time and place ALWAYS get to write the self-justifying "official" his-stories. Even pretending that their actions were ordained or justified by their tribalistic "god".

The contents and disputes of the Australian his-story wars altogether really have nothing to do with the fanciful writings of Bruce Pascoe.

Very few of the continents, countries and regions which now have Anglicized names were called that by the inhabitants who lived there prior to the Western colonial invasions

Deborah Melville.

Foster child Deborah died in the dirt in a suburban Darwin backyard, propped against a trailer. She was suffering from a leg infection which had spread into the bone, and was visited by FACS case workers the day before she died. A FACS worker assured the child, “I am not here to take you away.” A manslaughter trial and coronial inquiry was told that Deborah probably died in excruciating pain, and that she had been unable to control her bowel and bladder in the days before her death. Because of this, her carers, Denise Reynolds and Tony Melville, put her outside to sit in the dirt. One witness told the manslaughter hearing that Reynold’s had said that “If Deborah wanted to wet and soil herself, she can go outside and do it like an animal.”

Though Deborah was living in filthy circumstances, FACS reported that she was “happy and healthy.”

Peter.

Seven week old Peter starved to death in the back of a hot car on the Stuart Highway in 2005. Peter was born to a drug using mother who’s six other children were known to FACS. In 2002, one of the children, a daughter, was taken (stolen?) and taken to Alice Springs Hospital at three months old, “haunted and looking like a bony skeleton.” Peter at death weighed 1kg less than his birth weight, and during his brief life, FACS officers were repeatedly contacted with reports that the baby was extremely skinny. There were various attempts to remove Peter from his mother’s care, but she was unco-operative, and FACS did not ask the police to forcibly remove (steal) the child.

Joy.

Joy was assessed by health workers as being ‘at risk of severe harm”, and she was one of eight teenage girls in a remote mining town who were being sexually abused by a government official. The teenager, who was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, had a long history of neglect in her aboriginal family. As early as two, she was deposited at a local health clinic because nobody was looking after her.

Stolen generation board sacked, cops called
• By Catherine Best
• From: AAP
• February 17, 2010 4:34PM
THE Victorian government has dumped the board of a stolen generations support group, cut its funding and called in the police to investigate alleged misappropriation of funds.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is also investigating Stolen Generations Victoria Ltd (SGV) after auditors uncovered almost $100,000 in funds were unaccounted for. Victorian Aboriginal Affairs Minister Richard Wynne announced that funding for the group would be cut immediately and a new body established to provide support services and advocacy for members of the state's stolen generations.

He said forensic accountants BDO Australia had uncovered inappropriate expenditure and inadequate documentation for expenditure totalling about $97,000.

"We do not tolerate financial mismanagement of any publicly-funded organisation, no matter what services they provide, but we recognise the value of the SGV staff's work and that is why we will ensure services they previously provided continue to be available to those who need them," Mr Wynne said. "This decision was not made easily, but it is in the best interests of the stolen generations community and I am now focused on ensuring the seamless transition of services they need."

An investigation was triggered mid last year when SGV's chief executive was stood down and later sacked. The group was established in 2005 in response to the Bringing them Home report and is fully funded by the state government with a three-year budget of about $900,000.

SGV acting chief executive Janis Constable said the group would continue to operate under a new name and management structure.
Staff and clients would not be affected and only the 10-member board of management would change, she said.

"Operationally the services that we provide will continue, it's just under a new governance structure," Ms Constable said.
"I can't really comment on the details of the forensic audit ... but there's $97,000 that has come into question.

Indigenous Leader Sacked The Weekend Australian Feb 6-7 2017

The aboriginal Chief Executive of a Federal government foundation dealing with the trauma of the Stolen Generations has lashed out after he was fired with little explanation less than a month into his job. John Roe was dismissed by the board of the Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Healing Foundation this week. The Foundation was set up a year ago, on the anniversary of Kevin Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations, and was allocated $26.6 million over four years in last years Federal budget.

Mr Roe denied speculation that his dismissal was related to his use of a corporate credit card. He confirmed that the card had been nearing it’s $10,000 dollar limit after less than two weeks of use, but denied any wrongdoing.

“All expenditure can be accounted for, all expenditure was above board, and all of it was to do with the set up of the Healing Foundation from scratch” he said. “There is absolutely nothing to hide.”

What a curlish even childish article, and one with so little grace or understanding.

There is no account of those mothers who through deprivation and lack of support handed their children over to the care of authorities but never expected they would never have contact with them again. Where access was routinely denied. Where policies which continue to this day leave indigenous families in spirals of poverty.

To hear of 20 living in a single house in Moree and the subsequent threat of Covid is a case in point.

We are continuing to fail a large section of our country indigenous folk. While the courts may not recognise a mother forced through circumstance to give up her child as stealing from her, many of us do because that is what it is.