Aboriginal families are very similar with a couple of additional roles. They are: feelings of kinship (bonding with their extended family) kinship is also the respect for elders who pass on the important traditions, values and stories within their culture, the understanding of values of sharing, understanding of dreamtime and of the spiritual life.

In 1997, the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) produced a report that told us that the Europeans thought aboriginals had no right to keep their child, so they were removed and placed in another family, thinking this will benefit the child more.

After being removed from there families they were told they would be placed in another white family who would take care of them, and if old enough would be paid a wage for working for them. But in most cases this did not happen. Instead they were physically and sexually abused, worked very hard and received little to nothing than what they were told they would receive. Even those that were placed in a loving family felt feelings of loneliness and reject.

When you said it was better we leave our families and join a white community you promised us a substantial pay but all we got was rubbish.

In 1933 there was a report written saying that they were going to breed the aboriginals into the whites so the race will soon disappear.

Many of the children returned to their families to find that they had brothers and sisters that they never knew about them, and vice versa. Not only did some return but also many never returned, because they were killed or died of physical or sexual abuse and loneliness.

In the early 1900's the government was very forceful about the whole situation. But after the end of the Second World War they spoke less openly about their justifications that is was it was in the child's best interests to be removed from his or her community.

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