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The law was allowed in Victoria, the very first state to start.
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Victoria started taking the children away.
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In 1883, the NSW aboriginals protection board Was established to manage the life of over 900 people.
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The Aboriginal Protection (Qld) allows the ‘Chief Protector’ to remove local Aboriginal people.
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Western Australia started.
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South Australia started taking the children away.
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The NSW Aborigines Protection Board is given powers to remove Aboriginal children without a court hearing. This power is repealed in 1940, when the Board is renamed the Aborigines Welfare Board.
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In 1970, children were no longer taken away.
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Going Home Conference in Darwin. Over 600 people removed as children, from every state and territory met to share experiences, and expose the history of the removal of Aboriginal children from their families and the effects of this policy on Aboriginal people.
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11 may: The national inquiry into the separation of aboriginal and Torres Straight Islanders children from there families is established to examine the effects of separation, identify what should be done in response, find justification for any compensation and look at the laws of that time effecting child separation.
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On May 26 1997, a national sorry day was held for all of the children that were taken away.
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January: Australians for native title (ANT) launches the sorry books campaign where Australians can sing who want to do something in response to the federal governments refusal to make a formal apology to the stolen generations.
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26 August: Federal Parliament issues a statement of deep sincere regret over forced removal of aboriginal children from their families.
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Australia appears before the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The Committee criticisms the Commonwealth Government’s inadequate response to recommendations of the Bringing Them Home Report.
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In 2008, PM Kevin Rudd apologized for what happened with the stolen generation.
