Stolen Generation

The Stolen Generation is the name generally given to Aboriginal people who were removed from their families as children. These were the fair-skinned children who came under the government policy of removal mainly between 1910 and 1970 and were sent to institutions or adopted into non-Aboriginal families. Those government policies are now recognised as misguided and destructive. The National Enquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Children from their Families (1997) culminated in the report entitled “Bringing Them Home.” Rudd’s 2008 apology was addressed to people affected by this policy.