Talk:Stolen Generations

There seems to be no information on this page about how this was advertised to Australian citizens at the time

I.e. was there propaganda? There seems to be leftover news advertisements.. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/fb-5948969/THE-STOLEN-GENERATIONS.html

Were there Australian citizens of the time who thought "what they were doing was helping?". This perspective seems to be missing from the article. Wallby (talk) 08:38, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

As maybe a ten year old in Australia in the 1950s, my parents told me how nice we white people were being to Aboriginal kids by putting them in special schools where they could learn to be housemaids and farm workers. I won't try to interpret that for you, except to say that, as far as most people were concerned, it was a well intentioned program. HiLo48 (talk) 09:16, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Unsourced claim

Under the section "Emergence of the child-removal policy", there is the following statement:

Studies that were then viewed as scientific claimed that Australian Aborigines traits were less visible after mixing with Europeans than sub-Saharan African traits are, so Australia did not apply a one drop rule to Aborigines like the American South did to people of African descent.

This claim is sourced to a 1960 scientific study that examines the traits of some mixed-race people in order to extrapolate the likely genetic mechanism by which these traits are inherited, and then discusses the implications for the effectiveness of integration policy in light of these findings together with previously known information.

In other words, almost not a single part of the above statement is sourced.

• It is not established how the study fails to be scientific.
• It is not established that there is more than one study.
• It is not established that scientific consensus had any relevance to government policy-making.
• It is not established why the "one drop rule" should be considered the status quo in racial policy or what relevance the "American South" has here. These terms are also unprompted americanisms and should not be contained within an article written in Australian English.

Since relevance has not been established, the statement should be entirely removed. 130.43.213.148 (talk) 06:36, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 19 November 2025

I request for where it says "removing Aboriginal children as genocide" to be changed to "removing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children as genocide" please. ~2025-34829-28 (talk) 16:12, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

 Not done. No need to single out people when there is no source for it. NotJamestack (✉️|📝) 16:59, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

Torres Strait Islanders are not classified as Aboriginals. ~2025-35317-48 (talk) 23:47, 20 November 2025 (UTC)

True, but not relevant unless the source cited discusses Torres Strait Islanders, or you can cite a valid one directly on the same topic which does, as you have been told on multiple occasions, in relation to multiple articles. Please stop spamming Wikipedia talk pages with the same utterly pointless requests. We are not going to arbitrarily include text referring to Torres Strait Islanders alongside text concerning Aboriginals just to suit your personal objectives, regardless of how long you keep this up, and you may eventually find yourself being blocked for disruption. AndyTheGrump (talk) 00:14, 22 November 2025 (UTC)

Television station ABS

The article, as it stood, had the Adelaide outpost of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation/Commission conducting a survey which Robert Manne used to estimate between 20,000 and 25,000 Aboriginal children were removed. This is clearly a nonsense as being outside the remit and capability of this honorable but tiny institution. I have no access to Flood (2006) p.232 but surely ABS refers to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, which has both the remit and facilities to conduct a credible survey. Doug butler (talk) 00:08, 26 January 2026 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 15 April 2026

I request for where it says "removing Aboriginal children as genocide" to be changed to "removing Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children as genocide", since Torres Strait Islanders were targeted too. ~2026-23258-33 (talk) 18:04, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

 Not done: See the response to your previous edit request concerning this. Day Creature (talk) 19:03, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

 Done meamemg (talk) 19:10, 15 April 2026 (UTC)

I've updated the language to use "indigenous" since that is the language used by the Report when discussing it's conclusions regarding genocide. meamemg (talk) 19:16, 15 April 2026 (UTC)