Well I reckon there was initial good intentions in saving the kids.
But even in White society, there are those who over-do it, exploit it and more and then give a good thing a bad reputation.
I've watched a few docos where the Aborigines have praise for those who raised and helped them to a better life away from abuse.
But I tend to think that the Media (America) would like to portray Australia as just an extension of its 'confederate' South against 'Blaks'. Basically corrupt as much as they can.
Thus the 'bitter' side comes out mostly from the Media's interpretation for the 'victimhood' of keeping the 'blaks' weak and dependent on superior Media culture.

So I really can't see an absolutism with this - as there is good and bad about it. Stolen to some, 'Saved' to others.
I guess it's all about 'Promotion' and if the Media propaganders 'Stolen' as its priority and the 'Saved' gets forgotten... then I guess they really are the 'Stolen Generations' as no-one else bothered to promote the 'Positive' side in challenge.

Jasin wrote on Mar 10^th, 2024 at 4:49pm:


In the early days the children removed were lighter skinned children from inter-racial relationships.

The claims made were that this was done in an effort to push assimilation & breed Aboriginals out(genocide according to the activists)

whether their mothers loved them or not is debatable ......

but the fact is that halfcaste & lighter children were not very welcome in tribal groups & were the brunt of derision & exclusion.

Of course the methods of removal weren't that flash back in the day ..... it wasn't for any child of any background ....

but in the main they were removed for their safety.

And it's convenient to forget the more than 100,000 supposed child orphans from the UK & Ireland that were sent to Canada, Australia & other Commonwealth countries from the 1860's

Australia got 7,000 British children between 1910 & 1970.
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Between 1845 & 1852 more than 4,000 Irish girls were sent to Australia.
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Many many of those children were not orphans as was reported - they were removed from parents & homes.

So in my opinion the "Stolen Generations" - (yeah that's now plural because the activist twats say it's still happening) is just victim card playing bullshyte.

It's a pity those 8 kids in Cairns weren't removed from their home & mother .... they'd be alive today.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-04/cairns-children-killings-what-drove-raina...

It only takes a moment to consider that the motivation by any white
organisation and/or government "taking" half-caste children from
their parents would cost these whites a veritable truckload of money. 
Money that was thin on the ground between the two world wars.

I can accept that some Aboriginals were taken, mostly by religious
organisations who were erroneously trying to inculcate them with
Christianity—particularly the Roman Catholics.

But of the estimated 800,000 Aboriginal population of the period,
only a tiny minority—maybe less than a thousand?—were physically
removed from their parents, and of those numbers there is very little,
if any, evidence of their names or the mobs they came from.

Current Aboriginal organisations claim up to 100,000 children were
removed, but there is zero evidence supporting this.  They also claim
that this was occurring into the 1970s, but as someone who lived and
worked in NW Western Australia in that period, I never saw any evidence
supporting this.

I also recall when Andrew Bolt, the outspoken journalist, asked
Robert Manne to name just 10 of the Aboriginals removed from
their parents,  Manne couldn't even name one—despite being an
extremely strong supporter of its actuality.