Stolen children: their stories - Carmel Bird

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Stolen children and their stories Bird's introduction to the stories

Bringing them home: the stolen children report Includes the text of the report, background to the Inquiry, frequently asked questions about the stolen children and the Inquiry, personal stories from the report, media releases and opinion pieces, as well who spoke out at the time of the children's removal. From the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission site.

Issues

Race and Remembrance: Contesting Aboriginal Child Removal in the Inter-War Years Fiona Paisley in Australian Humanities Review

The Stolen Children: an afterword Henry Reynolds in Australian Humanities Review

Time for truth: speaking the unspeakable - genocide and apartheid in the 'Lucky Country' Sue
Stanton in Australian Humanities Review

Stolen children: from removal to reconciliation A number of articles from the University of New South Wales Law Journal focusing on legal issues surrounding the removal of aboriginal children from their families.

 Analysis

 Carmel Bird's 'The stolen children' A review of the book by Christine Nicholls in Crossings, Journal of International Australian Studies Association, No.5, Vol.3, October 2000.

 

About the Author

About Carmel Bird From the Carmel Bird website, an entry from the Oxford Companion to Australian Literature.

Interview with Carmel Bird Carmel Bird talks to 'The Well' bookshop about Stolen children and her novel, Red shoes.

Library Resources

  Beresford, Quentin. Our state of mind: racial planning and the stolen generations. Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1998

  Bird, Carmel (ed). The stolen children: their stories: including extracts from the Report of the National Inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Sydney: Random House Australia, 1998

  Fraser, Rosalie. Shadow child: a memoir of the stolen generation. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, 1998

  Healey, Kaye (ed). The stolen generation. Series: Issues in society. Balmain: Spinney Press, 1998

  Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission. Bringing them home: report of the national inquiry into the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families. Canberra: AGPS, 1997

  Kenworthy, Colin. First Australians, new Australians. Part II, Changing places: aboriginality in texts and contexts. South Fremantle, W.A.: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1997

  Read, Peter. A rape of the soul so profound: the return of the stolen generations. St.Leonards, NSW: Allen & Unwin, 1999