Western Australia Announces Reparations for the ‘Stolen Generations’

By Human Rights Watch

Click to expand Image An Aboriginal flag in Perth, Australia, October 7, 2023. © 2023 Matt Jelonek/Getty Images On Tuesday, the Western Australia state government announced a new reparations program for the “Stolen Generations,” Indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families under racist policies that began in the early 1900s and lasted into the 1970s. The action follows decades of activism by First Nations peoples.Under the new program, Aboriginal people removed from their families in Western Australia before July 1972 will each be eligible for a payment…

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