Talk:Bringing Them Home

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[edit] Avoiding overlap with Stolen Generation

Just realised there is an article on the Stolen Generation. Bringing Them Home will have to concentrate on the enquiry only, not the policies of removal, to avoid duplicating Stolen Generation. Phaedrus86 05:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Improvements to be made

OK, at the moment this is not a lot more than a long recitation of facts. From what I understand, this report more or less made the wider public aware of the 'stolen generations' phenomenon, true? And the whole launch for an apology, and then the history wars, even... yes?

some random notes;

There was a govt Senate submission that rejected many of the findings of the report I think? + criticism of the govt for failing to follow up the report's recommendations properly
Ron Brunton criticism about methodology
Brunton, although acknowledging the undoubted injustices visited upon many Aboriginal families, was the first to confront the report's glaring methodological flaws. He was also the first to conclude that the accusation of genocide was a fabrication. When the report's claims were put to the test in the courts, all Brunton's major critiques were vindicated. Tanner appears never to have read the landmark judgement in Cubillo versus Commonwealth (2000), which not only handed the stolen generations argument a comprehensive defeat, but demolished the genocide argument. --op-ed piece by Paul Sheehan
Well I'm reluctant to criticise it because I think it did something that was tremendously important and tremendously valuable. People who've been close to the Aboriginal community knew that there was tremendous anguish about the effects of children being taken away over most of the century. Now around Australia there were thousands of people who had these stories, and were very burdened by the stories and anxious to tell them. And the Report brings those stories to a wide audience. It's had a tremendous impact on the white population, and greatly increased their understanding. That's one of the reasons I think why we've got hundreds of thousands of people walking across the Bridge. -- Hal Wooten, QC, Commissioner on the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (from this ABC Background Briefing, lots of interesting stuff there)
also Robert Manne & Brunton on the 7:30 Report