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Today marks the 11th anniversary of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Apology to the Stolen Generations. Join the Grandmothers Against Removals NOW, protesting forced adoptions law in NSW. 'The best care for kids is community.' Archibald Fountain Sydney https://www.facebook.com/events/291704631488627/?ti=cl …pic.twitter.com/7ZBnrsY61c
There are 3 large police vans & 1 police car here already. Observations of police presence at the Invasion Day protest (where the Grandmothers Against Removals also spoke) creates undue community concern. https://twitter.com/OtherSociology/status/1091863769389514752?s=19 …pic.twitter.com/wdoD9ZuVrq – at Archibald Fountain
'Shameful that today we're standing close to halls of power of Government that will steal our children again.' Ann Weldon, member of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council gives the Welcome to Countrypic.twitter.com/zQtPgWzs4Y – at Archibald Fountain
'Our children need to know we fought for them.' Hazel Collins one of the founders of the Grandmothers Against Removals has been protesting the ongoing trauma & removals of the Stolen Generations, every year, on her birthday, since 2014.pic.twitter.com/ZHtcTR3551
Michael Welsh, who is one of the Stolen Generations, shares his family story, with his parents, himself and his children kidnapped by the government.pic.twitter.com/Eh1yumyhxh
Doreen Webster, part of the Stolen Generations, who leads advocacy on behalf of the survivors from Cootamundra girls' home, spoke about the trauma we are creating for a new generation of Aboriginal youth, through forced adoptions. Her work: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2018-02-11/stolen-generations-cootamundra-girls-home-whats-changed/9408132 …pic.twitter.com/62rMGlJ5Im – at Archibald Fountain
Paul Gray, from AbSec, notes it's appalling that survivors of the Stolen Generations, like Michael and Doreen, were not consulted in the creation of the new forced adoption laws.pic.twitter.com/AhB7vEgGFI
The government spends $1.2 billion on stealing Aboriginal children from their families and communities, but only 1/6 of this on funding on keeping families together. David Shoebridge, Greens Member of the New South Wales Legislative Councilpic.twitter.com/DXO9tlyjZT
Adoption laws harm marginalised Aboriginal families. Labor put in 29 amendments to safeguard legislation on forced adoption, all rejected by the Government. Targeted early intervention funding is needed. Labor will repeal Shadow Family & Community Services Minister Tanya Mihalikpic.twitter.com/EthdhOV7GG
No draft exposure bill. Supposed consultation papers only released 2 days before forced adoption legislation introduced - just after Sorry Day. No proper debate in Parliament. This is poor legislation it needs to be reversed. -Tanya Mihalik Sorry means you don't do it again.
June Oscar AO Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner is currently fighting to get back her grandson who has been put in out of home care. 'We want support. We want Government to include us in co-design of policies that affect us.'pic.twitter.com/JhNK3MNzOD – at Archibald Fountain
'We're Black women. We don't give up and we are strong.' - June Oscar AOpic.twitter.com/TpgN9Ef4j9 – at Archibald Fountain
What does sorry mean? You don't do it again. Stop forced adoptions!pic.twitter.com/oQaXvh18Cd
Adoption. No way, we're gonna fight it, all the way! Fight against forced adoption!pic.twitter.com/t2OOlGBIDu – at NSW Parliament House
Structural poverty means families can't get their kids back in 2 years before they're put into forced adoption. 40% kids in out of home care are Aboriginal Since Bringing Them Home report into Stolen Generations in 1997, Aboriginal kids are removed at 5X rate. -David Shoebridge
11 years ago, Kevin Rudd delivered national apology to Aboriginal people for forced removals. Today, Aboriginal kids in NSW, biggest proportion of Aboriginal children of other states, removals happen at double the rate. Politicians say sorry, but it's still happening. Shoebridge
Hazel Collins, founder of Grandmothers Against Removals, discusses the impact of forced removals on children, their health, and safety. 'Laws that allow removals are genocide.'pic.twitter.com/kIWw8nKybx
Doreen talks about the pain of growing up as a child, never being able to hug her parents, as she was removed and put into a girls' time. Michael talks about hope for the future. We need to keep coming together to end removals.pic.twitter.com/ZolDUxGr44 – at NSW Parliament House
Hazel hugs her daughter, who survived having her four children removed. The family is finally reunited. But thousands of families are still separated. This can't keep happening. The legalisation would tear them apart forever, though forced adoption.pic.twitter.com/10uFSeRAf2
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