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August 11, 2021

Australia Will Pay Reparations to Indigenous People Taken from Their Families as Children
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The Australian government has agreed to pay some $280 million in
reparations to Indigenous people who were forcibly separated from their
families as children. From the early 1900s to 1970s, over 100,000
Indigenous children were ripped from their families and communities -
known as the "stolen generation" - and sent to so-called boarding
schools as the Australian government enforced a program aimed at
eradicating Indigenous culture. While some Indigenous advocates welcomed
reparations, they fear history is repeating itself as Indigenous
children are still far more likely to be removed from their homes and
placed under state custody than non-Indigenous children in Australia.


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