A rape of the soul so profound: the return of the stolen generations / Peter Read
- Bib ID:
- 2901541
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Read, Peter, 1945-
- Description:
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- St Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 1999
- 236p. : il1 ; 20cm.
- ISBN:
- 1864488859
- Summary:
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The author coined the phrase "Stolen Generation" when, as a researcher, he came upon restricted files and what he read overturned his assumptions about the Aboriginal experience and Australia's past. This book ends 20 years later, in the aftermath of the Royal Commission into the events.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 211-215.
- First Nations (AIATSIS) Subject:
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- Government policy - Self determination - 1993-2004
- Child welfare - Child / parent separation - Stolen generations
- Child welfare
- Social welfare - Government
- Family
- Social welfare - Wards of state
- Government policy - Assimilation
- Child welfare - Adoption and fostering
- Government policy - Commonwealth
- Social welfare
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1999
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