THE STOLEN GENERATIONS: A DOCUMENTARY COLLECTION
This documentary collection was assembled before the debate at the Melbourne Writers' Festival on September 3 2006 on the question of the stolen generations.
For several years Andrew Bolt has been informing his readers in the Melbourne Herald Sun that the claim that between 1900 and 1970 thousands of mixed descent aboriginal children were removed from their mothers, families and communities involuntarily and without justifiable cause for racist reasons is an un-Australian, leftwing myth.
This collection is based on a selection of documents in government archives and some representative testimonies from those who experienced the removals directly. Its purpose is to allow those attending the debate to assess Bolt's claim.
Robert Manne, September 3 2006
CONTENTS: A. How Many Separations ....................................................................1
How Many were Separated from Natural Family, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Survey, Australian Bureau of Statistics, 1994....................................2
B. Queensland...........................................................................................6
Extracts from Dr W E Roth's "Progress Reports" (Aboriginal Protector, North Queensland) ...............................................................................................................7 Case of Walter..........................................................................................................14 (i) Dr Walter E Roth, Northern Protector of Aboriginals, Queensland, to D. Graham, Protector, Townsville, February 17, 1903.............................................14 (ii) Dr Walter E. Roth, Northern Protector of Aborigines, Queensland to Under Secretary, Department of Public Lands, June 8 1903.........................................15 (iii) William Craig, Cardwell, to Home Secretary, Brisbane, August 18 1903. .16 (iv) M. Matthews, Cardwell to Dr. Roth, Northern Protector of Aborigines, November 27, 1903..............................................................................................17 (v) William Craig, Cardwell, to Home Secretary, Queensland Government, 18 July 1904..............................................................................................................18 (vi) William Craig, Cardwell, to Chief Inspector of Aboriginals, Brisbane, 6th September, 1904. .................................................................................................21 From Annual Report to the Chief Protector of Aboriginals, Dr Walter E. Roth, 1905..........................................................................................................................24 The Problem of the Half-Caste ................................................................................29 (i) Gall Memorandum .........................................................................................29 (ii) Letter to W J Gall...........................................................................................33 From Ruth Hegarty, Is That You Ruthie, University of Queensland Press, 1999...35

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