Adelaide historian Cameron Raynes has a piece at Inside Story which is well worth reading. It is about his new book, which is called “The Last Protector: the illegal removal of Aboriginal children from their parents in South Australia.”
It also details the hurdles put in his way by the South Australian government to frustrate his efforts to access archival documents. More details of that are told here and here.
The amount of material that has been published demonstrating the reality of the practices that created the Stolen Generations is voluminous. However, some still try to propagate the notion that the whole thing is a myth, so every extra volume of material showing not just the reality of the practice, but also the enormity of it, is valuable.
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The government is currently appealing a decision awarding compensation to a man who was one of the “stolen generation”. As far as I am aware, he is the only one who has been received compensation thus far. This is despite the fact that he died last year.
Why we would want to vote people such as this into government I will never know.
People such as what, Jon? Historians unveiling some facts?
Err, sorry. I’m starting to realise that I am not much of a writer. I mean our members of parliament who appear to have no understanding of compassion.
Oops. Apart from you of course!