'It never ends': Trauma of Australia's 'stolen' children

 On the 11th anniversary of Australia's apology to the 'Stolen Generations', two survivors reflect on their experiences.

…. Having been taken from his mother by the police in 1960, when he was only two years of age, he became part of what is known as Australia's "Stolen Generations".....

"As a consequence, I've always felt, at a fundamental level, being alone in the world. Even being among people, I still feel alone - and I think that will never go," he says…..

….. Between 1900 and 1970, an estimated 100,000 Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their homes and communities and placed with either white families or institutions, according to the landmark 1997 Bringing Them Home report, which heard the stories of people such as Morley.

On February 13, 2008, the then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a historic national apology to the stolen children….

…. The report found more than half live with a disability or have a chronic health condition; 70 percent rely on government welfare, and are more than three times as likely to have been jailed in the past five years compared with other Aboriginal people….

…. "We still have our kids removed at a higher rate; we still have the incarceration; we still have them dying earlier than a non-Aboriginal person," Edwards says. "The unemployment is still high, the bad health is still high - where does it all stop, when does it all change?"....

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