Aboriginal Protection Act

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What was the aboriginal protection act?
The Aboriginal Protection Act in 1869 was to provide care and protection for aboriginal children but instead, lead to generations of children being taken away from their family as it denied aboriginal person rights and liberties. About 100,000 indigenous children have stolen approximately in late 1800 to 1970.These children were taken away to child shelters located across the state that they were living in. The children who were stolen during this period are now known as the ‘Stolen Generation” This act caused major problems among the aboriginal people and the white people. As white guardians took away the poor aboriginal children, it showed a horrible sign as if the white people were showing the aboriginal
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Some people developed post-traumatic stress disorder which is ‘a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or seeing a terrifying event’. Innocent aboriginal children were taken away from their family and their homes. This act was originally for a better life style until when the children were taken away from their family and community, parents saw this a kidnapping and an insult to the parents not being good enough for their children. No one nowadays could ever imagine the heart break and torture that these parents would face as they watch their children being torn out of their homes and communities away to white institutions where these innocent children were sooner brainwashed which led to confusion about their identities and lacked the love and attention that they all deserved. Many children were wrongly told that their parents had died or did not want them anymore, every aboriginal child did not know who their biological families were which made the children feel like they did not fit in. Individuals should be aware that if the Aboriginal Protection act was still happening today, you would be waking up one day an finding that the police is at your home forcing your parents to let go of yourself and your siblings, taking all of you away to a white institutions to live with strangers where you may never see your parents ever again, just because of the colour of your skin? How might that experience affect you throughout your life of not seeing your family ever again? Some parents could not emotionally live without their children and they turned to alcohol to release the pain. An official apology to the stolen generation did not exist until the 13th February 2008 when the newly elected Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologised on behalf of the Australian government for the loss of all the stolen generation children and the hurtful time that