Stolen Generations
Report
Bringing them home 20 years on: an action plan for healing
Australia’s ageing Stolen Generations are still struggling with the impacts of unresolved trauma, and need a new policy approach to assist them and their families to heal. This report details the response from government to the Bringing Them Home report.
Report
Healing for Our Stolen Generations: sharing our stories
This report is a review of the first two years of projects funded under the Healing Foundation’s Stolen Generations Initiative.
Report
Social justice and native title report 2014
This report finds that deep funding cuts and uncertainty about Government plans have created one of the largest scale upheavals in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs. One of the Commissioner's primary responsibilities is to report annually on the enjoyment and exercise of human rights by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. I also report...
Report
“It is the story of all of us”: learning from Aboriginal communities about supporting family connection
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children are highly over-represented in out of home care statistics. Around half of these children are in kinship care, a family arrangement that for Aboriginal people sits uncomfortably with the concept of ‘out of home care.’ Despite the number of children in Aboriginal kinship care, there is little published research...
Article
The next step: a reparations tribunal
For most members of the Stolen Generations, pursuing a civil claim through the courts is technically impossible or simply too painful, writes Robin Banks.