Denial of Rights

Question 1

Evidence to show the Indigenous people’s denial of rights.

Answer 1

1. NSW Aboriginal Protection Board.
2. Terra Nullius.
3. Stolen Generation.

Question 2

NSW Aboriginal Protection Board.

Answer 2

Aim to assimilate the Aboriginal race, they had misguided/ulterior motives.

Question 3

Activism

Answer 3

1. Day of mourning and protest.
2. Cummeragunja walk-off (Jack Pattern and Yorta Yorta people).
3. Establishment of the Australian Aborigines Progressive Association (AAPA).

Question 4

Stolen Generation

Answer 4

1. Assimilation
2. A.O Neville - advertised that this was just a “holiday” with a “good, white family).
3. Bring Them Home report (1997) showcased the harms of the Stolen Generation.

Question 5

Assimilation

Answer 5

Government policy from 1937, to absorb Aboriginal culture to create a single, unified, white Australian culture.

Question 6

Who was A.O Neville?

Answer 6

Chief Protector of Aboriginals in Western Australia. He was a significant cause of the Stolen Generation and proposed; Eugenics, Social Darwinism, Genocide.

Question 7

What did A.O Neville say?

Answer 7

“Eliminate the full-blood and permit the white admixture to half-castes and eventually the rave with become white.”

Question 8

What were harms created from the Stolen Generation?

Answer 8

1. 20-25% of children were placed in adoptive and foster homes.
2. 1997: Bringing Them Home report - expressed how 10% of those in institutions were victims of sexual assault.

Question 9

Experiences of the Stolen Generation.

Answer 9

1. Forced removal.
2. Identity loss (even of tiny children).
3. Sexually, psychologically & physically abused.
4. Suffered the dispossession of their land.
5. Health & living challenges.
6. Suffered cultural erasure.
7. Inter-generational trauma.
8. Systemic discrimination.
9. Limited education.
10. Forced labor.