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stolen childrenplural noun AustralianAboriginal children forcibly removed from their families between the 1900s and the 1960s, to be brought up by white foster families or in institutions; the stolen generation: a woman who finds she is descended from stolen children...- We should seek to negotiate the issue of the Stolen Children and end the practice of seeking to justify unjustifiable policies through the courts.
- Here is a story that should have resonances for Australians, both through tales of convict ancestry and also through past treatment of indigenous people, particularly stolen children.
- It makes the whole thing about stolen children not just about Aboriginal people but sort of like a dark undercurrent of our society.
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