Australia has no choice but to compensate the "stolen generation" and will provide some Aborigines with compensation of A$75,000 each
[Global Times reporter Hao Shuangyan] Many aboriginal Australians who were tragically separated have waited for long-overdue compensation, but the damage is irreparable.
The "Sydney Morning Herald" reported on the 5th that the Australian government said on the 5th that it would provide some aboriginals with a one-time compensation of 75,000 Australian dollars (about 358,000 yuan) per person as a compensation for their forced and family members during their childhood. Make up for separation.
Australian Prime Minister Morrison said when announcing funding in Parliament that day, the "stolen generation" is "a shameful chapter in our country's history."
From 1910 to 1970, the Australian government implemented the "White Australia Policy" and "Assimilation Policy". As many as 100,000 Aboriginal children were forcibly taken away from their families by the local government, churches and welfare agencies, concentrated in white families and specialized institutions Adopted and forced to learn "white culture", the Australian government used this to obliterate the aboriginal culture and language.
These aboriginal children who were forced to stay away from their families and ethnic groups later became known as the "stolen generation."
CNN reported on the 5th that the predatory behavior of children has severely hit the Aboriginal communities in Australia-broken families, torn identities and a large number of Aboriginal children who cannot grow up with their families, two generations of continuous trauma It cannot be healed today.
It was not until 2008 that the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a formal apology to the "stolen generation", calling it a "great stain on the soul of the country." However, the aborigines believe that the government needs to do much more than an apology.
In April of this year, 800 aboriginal survivors from the "stolen generation" from the Northern Territory filed a class action lawsuit against the Australian Federal Government to seek compensation.
In the face of growing criticism and months of legal actions by the indigenous people, the Australian government reluctantly announced on the 5th that it would allocate 1.1 billion Australian dollars to solve the survival plight of the indigenous people, of which approximately 378 million Australian dollars will be used as compensation.
Those who can be compensated are the aboriginals who were forcibly taken away from their families when they were under 18 years old and are still alive, living in the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.
Although the Australian government was forced to pay compensation, it also demanded that the indigenous people who accepted the compensation must give up seeking more compensation through legal action.
Due to the limited coverage of the compensation program, indigenous groups are still striving for compensation to be extended to other areas.
The Australian 7news news network reported on the 5th that the Minister of Indigenous Peoples of the Australian Federal Government Ken Wyatt said that his mother was forcibly taken away when she was a baby. He did not see his siblings until she was in her 20s. The trauma cannot be eliminated".
"Indigenous people have waited too long for this compensation," Pat Turner, chief executive officer of the Australian Aboriginal Health Organization "National Indigenous Community Management Health Organization" told reporters on the 5th, "Many of us (victims) My compatriots have passed away, including my mother... I hope that this compensation can bring comfort to some aboriginal people who are still alive, but nothing can replace the growth around their families, and this can never be remedied." The Australian Human Rights Commission issued in 1997 The "They Go Home" report concludes that the so-called assimilation policy implemented by the Australian government against indigenous people is “tantamount to genocide”.
At present, the situation of the Aborigines in Australia is still worrying.
According to Reuters, about 700,000 indigenous people are at the bottom of the overall population in almost all economic and social indicators. Not only are life expectancies 8 years shorter than that of non-indigenous people, but the proportion of criminals in prison is particularly high.