Oh, and also:

//Did Pompeii happen ? Of course. We see videos.//

You've seen video footage of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79? Don't suppose you could upload them to youtube or something?

Sorry, just my little joke. Couldn't resist. I know what you meant, don't go all Is Mise on me.

Toni,

As far as I know, such child welfare records that state bureaucrats kept would have been backed up with police reports, hospital reports, school records and private letters, and all of those would be in a person's file.

I did a brief study of the school records from my wife's community down on Lake Alexandrina, from 1962 to 1950. In that time, 800 kids went to the school there. Over those hundred years, forty seven were, at some time, put into care. All but one returned, usually within a year and the great majority paired up with other Indigenous people. A high proportion of the kids had lost their mothers - more than thirty mothers died during that period, usually in childbirth, leaving school-age children. A smaller number had lost their fathers, and the mothers had re-married, so the young girls were sent off to the Fullarton Girls' Home. Most of the instances of kids taken into care occurred after about 1940. I knew probably most of them.

I suppose it would be difficult to determine if any records were fabricated, but good luck.

Joe

LOUDmouth,

Nobody wants to go to Adelaide. Not as long as you're there anyway.

Joe,

There have been Royal Commission reports, and other
government documents that have all these abuses on record.
"Bringing Them Home," you should know.

Your research delves into the records of "Protectors"
and deals with South Australia. Why not broaden your
research?

Sometime time ago you were in denial about the numbers of
Aboriginal massacres. It appears that concerning our
Indigenous people you are consistently in denial. Yet you
take every opportunity to tells us your point of view.

In today's world - and I quote:

"...calls are growing for a national truth-telling process.
Such wishes are expressed in the Uluru Statement from The Heart.
Reconciliation Australia's 2019 barometer of attitudes to
Indigenous Peoples found that 80% of people consider truth
telling important." And as I stated earlier - "Almost 70%
of Australians accept that Aboriginal people were subject
to mass killings, incarceration, and force removal from land,
and their movement was restricted".

http://theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/mar/04/the-killing-times-the-massacres-of-aboriginal-people-australia-must-confront

Talking about Stolen Generations - the British Government took
children from families in their own country and shipped them
to Australia - where they faced servitude, hard labour, and
abuse. There was a doco on this subject a few years ago
with interviews with the survivors, now adults talking
about their experiences. You would probably classify that as
"heresay"- not evidence.

There's a parallel between what the Brits did to their own
kind - with what happened to Aboriginal kids. Apparently it
was common practice.

http://theguardian.com/society/2017/feb/27/britains-child-migrant-programme-why-130000-children-were-shipped-abroad

Dear Toni,

You put things so well, and into the right perspective.

Much better than I'm able to do.

Thank You.

Joe,

One final word.

The records that you found at the State Library in
Adelaide represent the views of the white "Protectors"
in South Australia. However, lets not forget the other
states and what happened in them which tells a different
story as the Royal Commission and other reports have
presented. Don't forget that the states in that time
were independent of each other and did not unite as a
nation until 1901. And had different policies and actions
in their treatment of the native population.

Therefore just to judge on what you found in one state
does not mean that was the case in other states - in
WA, NT, NSW, Queensland, and especially Tasmania.