Foxy
'who speculated that Aborigines were the 'lowest race' and 'parasites'
This certainly was evolutionary thinking. No wonder many of the missionaries were and still are respected by many of the Indigenous people today when 'scientist' persist with that rubbish. Thank God someone was doing something to help these people in practical terms. Its a pity we gave into the social engineers who insisted on the right of the aborigines to have grog which has almost ruined them.

Dear Runner,

You asked, "Who speculated that Aborigines were the 'lowest race' and 'parasites?'

I answered that question in my post if you want to re-read it. It happened during the 1930s and was promoted by the Professor of
Anthropology at Sydney University, A.P. Elkin. It was typical
'white man's' thinking of the period. Although from some to the
posts on this Forum - not that much has changed - sadly.

From some of the comments above, an apology from some of the posters here would not be worth much anyway.
Some people seem happy to drown in their own venomous bile.

Foxy,
I acknowledge the info in your post and can't imagine anyone not feeling sadness. You really should seek out the descendents of those bureaucrats and get them to express their remorse. You quote that thousands of Aboriginal children of mixed race were taken from their parents as part of a systematic policy in order to 'breed out the colour.' Police were used to find and steal children. Those Police, just like Police nowadays, followed orders. Many of them were Aboriginal.
I have never heard of mixed race Aboriginal from anywhere in the world. If they were mixed race than they must have had at least one non aboriginal parent as well. Is there any info on how many non aboriginal parents have taken their children and exercised their parental obligations. None of this rhetoric will ever compensate those poor children but neither will an appology. If Rudd delivers an acceptable appology will the taxpayer get an acknowledgement from those indigenous who weren't removed but nevertheless benefited from the taxpayers' contributions.

Individual, read the report,do some historical study. You will find that many Aboriginal children were removed from perfectly loving and safe environments. And even if they were not they would have preferred to growing up knowing who they were and especially their immediate and extended families. Your take is too simplistic to for me tore-explain in chapter and verse here - You'll just have to take my word for it (which i know you won't)

PS. Hope this response isn't too acidic to your delicate sensibilities petal. :)

Posting this for those lazy posters here who rely only on their bigoted ideas for evidence.

Bringing them home: The 'Stolen Children' report (1997)

Read the Report online or download PDF (18 MB)

Us Taken-Away Kids commemorating the 10th anniversary - 11 December 2007

Bringing them home Education Module 2007 update - 11 December 2007

http://www.hreoc.gov.au/Social_Justice/bth_report/index.html