Australia’s government sued over ‘Stolen Generations’ child removals – Global Times

Hundreds of Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their families as children are suing the government in a class action launched on Wednesday that seeks compensation for the injustice.Thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths were taken from their homes and put in foster care with white families, under official assimilation policies that persisted into the 1970s.
Now known as the “Stolen Generations,” they were routinely punished for speaking their own languages or…

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