ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANA –
Out of print and now SCARCE.
Argues that the removal of children from their parents was not genocide as stated in the Bringing Them Home Report, and that the term ‘Stolen Generations’ is unwarranted
“The stolen generations 1881-2008, in volume three, the author disproves the now widely accepted story that in the twentieth century up to one in three Aboriginal children were ‘forcibly’ removed from their parents in order to put an end to Aboriginality. In reality, the small numbers of Aboriginal child removals were almost all based on the same child welfare policies that applied to white children. They were neither racist nor genocidal. There were no ‘Stolen Generations’.”
“Re-appraises accepted stories about relations between settlers & Aborigines in Australian history. It also disproves the view that up to one in three Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their parents in order to put an end to Aboriginality.”
“This book is based on an exhaustive examination of the archival records of child removals and of government policies and laws. It also scrutinizes the work of the historians on whom the Human Rights Commission relied. It finds the historical research that created this interpretation was shoddy and untrustworthy.”
“This is the third volume in a series re-appraising the now widely accepted story about relations between settlers and Aborigines in Australian history. The series is based on a close re-examination of the primary sources used by historians. So far, Keith Windschuttle had demonstrated that much of their case is poorly founded, other parts are seriously mistaken, and some of it is outright fabrication.”
First Edition.