Sentences with phrase «forcible removal of the child»

I am cognizant of the inability of the court to control and manage the chaotic day - to - day results of a forcible removal of a child from a close parental bond.

Expressing regret regarding the «inability» of the Court to manage the results of the forcible removal of the child from her mother.

«Police over a long time were the public face of the Government as the agents of the Government, police caused unimaginable pain and anguish to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, families and particularly mothers and children by the forcible removal of children,» Mr Ryan said.

There is no «stolen generation»: the forcible removal of children did not amount to a gross violation of human rights and was not genocidal;

Expressing regret regarding the «inability» of the Court to manage the results of the forcible removal of the child from her mother.

Forcible removal of children from their families has also had a big impact on the community of Yarrabah with up to 80 % of the population either members of Stolen Generations or descended from Stolen Generations members.

It manifests in individual acts of violence (situational violence), it is based on and breeds internalised racism (cumulative trauma) and has resulted from the historical processes of colonisation, dispossession and forcible removal of children (inter-generational trauma).

Not exact matches

Almost every Aboriginal family has been affected by the forcible removal of one or more children across generations.

It is the finding that the forcible removal of Indigenous children constituted genocide.

The issues that flow from the forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children have been raised ineluctably.

Again and again, Brunton shows, the Report fails to distinguish between forcible removal, sending away of children with consent of their parents, total removal and partial (eg, returning to family at weekends) removal, detention imposed for repeated delinquency preceding any removal, spells in hospitals and schools, and the saving of children from physical and sexual abuse within their own family and by others.

Many non-Indigenous Australians could not understand how such events could ever have taken place in this country, while others strongly defended the actions and intentions of those who sanctioned the forcible removal of Indigenous children.

The Queensland Government response refers to general public service training on cultural awareness; training for front - line child protection and youth justice workers («Family Services Officers») in the Department of Families, Youth and Community Care in relevant matters including the history and effects of forcible removal; and, the current development of appropriate cultural modules for teacher training courses.

Twelve months on since the release of Bringing Them Home, we can look back at the public debate on the forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, and reflect on the impact of the Report and its implications for future understanding of issues affecting Indigenous Australians.

In whose interests is it to pass discretely over the history of the forcible removal of Indigenous children?

However, as was pointed out in our meetings with governments, such Indigenous specific courses are not the only vehicle through which the history and continuing effects of forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families might be taught.

The forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families is an episode in our history of which we are rightly ashamed... There were some good intentions, if misguided, behind the policy.

The forcible removal of Aboriginal children from their families was predicated on notions of biological racial purity to «absorb the half - castes into the white population» — a devastating intergenerational policy based on what today would be dismissed as junk science.

Two examples clearly illustrate the destructive impact of this dynamic - the non-recognition of native title prior to 1992 and the forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families.

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission conducted an inquiry into the forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their families.

Similarly, as Bringing them home noted, policies of forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families had at their core the belief that Indigenous culture was inferior to that of the mainstream society.

I still reflect on the significance of the Bringing Them Home Report on the forcible removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children.

The National Apology to the Stolen Generations in February 2008 recognised the devastating impact that the forcible removal of Indigenous children has had on so many individuals, families and communities.

The process of reconciliation must start with a candid recognition of what took place — the forcible removal of many Aboriginal children from their parents and communities.