It only took two days ...

[Alec. J. Hidell]

[Dave The Man]

[Dave The Man]

[Dale61]

[Dave The Man]

[Alec. J. Hidell]

[Dave The Man]

[Alec. J. Hidell]

[David]

I don't have any problem with people filing compensation claims if they feel they have been done wrong, and being unjustly taken from your family would certainly fall under that category.

However, I guess we've got to hope that each case is judged fairly. For example, I have learned in recent weeks that there may well have been concentrated efforts to remove Aboriginal children as an attempt at social engineering - around the 1930s, if my memory is correct? But then we hear that children were removed from their parents up until the 1970s. Now, I find it hard to believe that all these removals were actually directly related to a policy that, by the 1970s, surely would have been horribly outdated. After all, Aborigines had citizenship status by the early 60s, didn't they?

So, is it possible that this guy who Dale's article refers to was actually removed from his parents (in the mid 1960s, seeing as the guy is now in his mid-40s) as an act of child welfare? And if so, should he be entitled to compensation?

btw, none of these questions are rhetorical, so any answers would be appreciated.

[Culprit]

As a descendant of a Stolen Generation I will not be seeking compensation for the grounds I have not been affected. My late Grandmother should have been able to sue as far as I am concerned. Taken by a white family as the mother could not have children so they decided under the Social employee at the time that the child would be in better hands as the parents are white not black. They took her as she was a half cast and would not stand out s much. If your child was taken from you now by the Government you would sue as it is your right. Just because you are Indigenous it does not mean you have fewer rights. Each case should be handled individually and treated as such. No amount of money will make up for the pain and whilst the spin coming out of certain people it’s all about money I never saw these same people jump up and down when we had compensation hearings for victims of the Granville train disaster. That was for pain and suffering and no one said word. The same thing when we had sailors suing over the Voyager disaster and it took them decades to receive compensation and no one said a word against them. All of a sudden we have the black man wanting compensation and it’s oh no that cannot happen.

Whilst you could say some of these people will just piss the money away we could say the same for many a white man that has received a payout.

[Dave The Man]

[Culprit]

I should have added the social officer overseeing aboriginals in the area signed off on it and made it legal. It was the Governments way to eradicate the evil they saw as being black, Breed em out.


It's civil Dave but I am not interested. I have not even claimed what I am entitled too under legistlation and there are many like me but we don't make the news.

[Alec. J. Hidell]

[Dave The Man]

[member34258]

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