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The Stolen Generation is an example of structural violence against the Aboriginal Australians. The Stolen Generation refers to the Aborigines of 1910-1970 that were removed from their aboriginal families and placed in white society to assimilate them. These children weren't allowed to speak their indigenous languages and often their names were changed. The goal of this was to make indigenous culture die out and have the White culture reign supreme.

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Between the years 1910-1970, many indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families as a result of various government policies, including assimilation. "Assimilation was based on the assumption of black inferiority and white superiority, which proposed that Indigenous people should be allowed to “die out” through a process of natural elimination, or, where possible, should be assimilated into the white community". Children were taken from their families as part of the Stolen Generation, and were forbidden to live their lives as indigenous people. This included not being able to speak their native language, being placed into white families, and put into institutions to be abused and neglected. Assimilation failed its goal of making the lives of Indigenous Australians better, since they absorbed them into white society. The white society denied the indigenous people equality, regardless of what Assimilation tried to do.

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Throughout most of the 20th century, white Australians have ruined the lives of many indigenous peoples of Australia by removing them from their parents and putting them up for adoption by white families. They hoped to destroy the Aboriginal culture in this way, completely assimilating Aboriginal peoples. In the case of Bruce Trevorrow, white Australians repeatedly lied to the parents that he was recovering in a hospital. As a result, Bruce and many other indigenous people of Australia have suffered from alcohol abuse and depression, and they lack the skills necessary to raise children because they did not grow up with their biological parents. Although this structural violence no longer occurs today, the act of stealing generations of children from Aboriginal families continues to have negative impacts today.

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An example of structural violence against Aboriginal peoples in Australia is the Stolen Generation. According to the Assimilation policy, Aboriginal children were forcibly taken from their families and cultures and were trained to act as white people did. They were forbidden to practice their traditions or languages. Many children ended up in abusive or neglectful households and institutions. The goal of assimilation was to wipe out Aboriginal cultures while encouraging white culture to thrive and take over the country. This was seen by the white society as an improvement for the Aboriginals' lives as well. However, Aboriginal peoples were still discriminated against due to their skin color, regardless of how much assimilation they had gone through.

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One example of structure violence against Aboriginal Australians is the use of inappropriate language to describe the population. Because language is such a influential tool, hate and prejudice stems, causing a "normal" divide between the groups. In doing so, the Aboriginal Australians are not able to receive the same opportunities as the general population of people of European decent.

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not only were they relocated to a foreign place

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Unfortunately, the world's past and present consist of many forms of structural violence. Structural violences, which prohibit equal opportunities, goods, and services, are seen in many different ways. In Aboriginal Australian context, structural violences amongst the people are noticed left and right. This includes Edmund Barton, Australia's first ever prime minister, passing policies that keep Australia primarily white and British. Barton's reasoning for this is solely based on his firm belief that whites are superior. This is an example of structural violence against the Aboriginal Australians in view of the fact that it is limiting the aspect of equal opportunities, from their daily lives.

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An example of structural violence that initially stood out to me was the stories of the "Stolen Generation". This is a term that refers to the children who were removed from their families between 1910 and 1970 so they could be assimilated into Australian society. Through the influence of the concepts of white superiority and black inferiority, children were taken from their families so their heritage and culture could be erased from their minds. Assimilation was stated as being intended to improve the lives of these children, but these core ideas didn't allow for the children to be accepted as equals. This entire process not only had damaging effects to the children as they experienced an extremely unhappy childhood, but also affected their parents often damaging their entire lives beyond repair. These negative effects can be seen today in the prejudices the Indigenous Australians still encounter and the damage still felt, especially psychologically.

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One example of the structural violence that the Aborigines faced was when the government decided to implement the policy of Assimilation. This policy was designed to take young native Aborigines from their families and place them into a white family where they were raised surrounded by white culture and practices. This was in an effort to change them so that they would no longer have any of what was considered to be Aborigine traits. This was all because they considered whites to be the superior race and wanted to ensure that the entire country was all that race. This is an example of structural violence because the Aborigines were denied the basic human rights of being equal, not being discriminated, and also just the right to make decisions for themselves. The Children were unjustly taken from their parents and raised in an environment where none of their native roots could be expressed just because of this idea that they were inferior to the whites.

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One example of structural violence to the Aborigines is that of the Stolen Generation. During the years of 1910-1970, government policies were put in place that removed indigenous children from their families and forced them to live the rest of their lives as what was known as "half caste". These policies were originally made up so as to acclimate the children into white society, but this was not the real case, and many were the subject of neglect and abuse. They were forbidden to speak their native language, and threatened into embracing white culture. Called Assimilation, it was based on the belief of black inferiority and white superiority, which stemmed off of the ideas that the indigenous people would essentially "die out" or instead could be assimilated into white society.

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From 1910 - 1970, a policy called Assimilation was put into place in Australia. Countless indigenous children were taken from their homes to places where they were taught to deny their heritage, take on white culture, and adopted by white families who often afflicted abuse and neglect on them. This policy was based on the common idea in Australia of white superiority. They took children as they were more moldable and vulnerable; easier to implement into white society than the indigenous adults.
https://australianstogether.org.au/discover/australian-history/stolen-generations

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One example that I found was interesting from the websites was the implementation of assimilation between the years of 1910 and 1970. Assimilation was basically a policy where the younger children/generation were taken away from their families and prevented from continually practicing their native language, traditions, customs, and culture through abuse and/or neglect. From this, they were taught to adapt to and accept the white culture such that their behavior and lives were based off of a new, different culture instead of their native one. They were forced to forget about everything that was indigenous to them and instead had to live lives as members of a white society. In the end, this policy was not successful and overall failed because even though these indigenous people adjusted to white culture and white society, they were treated as unequals by the white population/people.

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An example of structural violence against Aboriginal Australians is the diction test used from the years 1901 to 1958. It was a test in which migrants could be asked to recite up to 50 European words. There was also proof that officials were able to manipulate the tests in order to ensure certain individuals failing. This kept the 98% white population that Australia strived for. Clearly this made it close to impossible for diversity to be brought into Australia and left a prominent white society. The diction test is a perfect example of how structural violence can play out in a country or society.

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Isabelle Planchet - Treatment towards indigenous people in Australia  

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Isabelle Planchet - Treatment towards indigenous people in Australia  

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Examples of structural violence are the acts that were passed in 1901 in order to maintain a population of white, British national character. The first act was the Immigration Restriction Act, then the Pacific Island Laborers Act, and finally the Post and Telegraph Act. These acts all worked to form the initial legislative foundation. These are examples of structural violence because they prevent indigenous people to be treated like a normal respected person would be, just based on the color of their skin or their ethnic background.

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Hannah Chiou - Immigration Restriction Act

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Hannah Chiou - Immigration Restriction Act

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In 1901, Australia passed the Immigration Restriction Act. Though the act never explicitly mentioned "white" or "race", the act included measures that allowed officials to twist the rules to kick "undesirable" immigrants out. The diction portion was a test that required immigrants to write 50 words in any European language. Officials used this as grounds to deport Jewish communist Egon Kisch, who spoke several European languages, when he couldn't say the Lord's Prayer in Gaelic. As a result, nonwhite immigrants were discouraged from coming to Australia, setting it apart even more as predominantly white. Also, shipping companies did not sell tickets to Australia for people who might fail the test, barring nonwhite people from entering Australia. Overall, this act was a deceptive way for the Australian government to keep Australia as a white nation.

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In Australia, the Aboriginal Australians were systematically hindered from equal access to several opportunities, goods, and services that enabled the fulfillment of their basic human needs. For example, before 1967 Aboriginal Australians were exempt from what was considered to be the population. Then, after it also allowed the federal parliament, for the first time, to make laws for Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. It was part of a wave of activism and reform. Old style segregation was being dismantled and the Aboriginal political voice was being heard. I also found

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Prior to 1967, the Aborigines were not considered a part of the population. After this referendum, they were considered part of the population; however, they still did not have equal treatment under the law. After a few more reforms, they began to have equal legal treatment; however, they still experience cultural violence. Today, clash still exists between the indigenous peoples of Australia and much of the population of Australia, as this is a very tense topic that will likely take many years to resolve.

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One example of structural violence was the section in their constitution that prevented indigenous from being counted as citizens. After the 1967 referendum, which was a huge step towards equal education and employment, aboriginal Australians were able to live their life with additional freedoms. Although it's still not perfect, and many natives are pushing for substance over symbolism, Australia has progressed from the obvious structural violence they exhibited previously.

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An example of structural violence is the White Australia Policy. This is a series of acts with a common goal: to achieve and maintain a white, British national character. What forms the initial legislative foundation are the Immigration Restriction Act, Pacific Island Laborers Act and the Post and Telegraph Act (all passed in 1901). Although these acts doesn't specifically mention the words "white" or "race", the parliamentary debates and its application reveal racial exclusion. Perhaps the most infamous feature of these acts is the dictation test. Migrants could be asked to write 50 words in any European language, and officers could manipulate the test to exclude any undesired person. (The most famous example was Jewish communist Egon Kisch. Fluent in several European languages, he was arrested after failing to recite the Lord’s Prayer in Scottish Gaelic.) Overall, the White Australia Policy reflects structural violence as a social institution is harming people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs.

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William Walling-Sotolongo -  The stolen generations

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William Walling-Sotolongo -  The stolen generations

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In a ploy to assimilate the aboriginals the government forcibly removed indigenous children from their families. This was done with the hope that as the new children were taught to reject their native culture, names, languages, and families and turn towards a white culture that their native culture would die out. Though it can be argued that this movement was done so with hopes to better the lives of Indigenous people by assimilating them into white culture, it tremendously backfired as they were still discriminated against and rejected. As a result of these actions many of the children were abused by their adoptive families, felt ashamed about their heritage, lived in poor conditions, got poor education, and lost their culture.

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Holly Jones: Australia's Treatment Towards the Indigenous Population

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Holly Jones: Australia's Treatment Towards the Indigenous Population

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Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders make 3% Australia’s population and hold the highest rates of suicide, alcohol abuse, domestic abuse and imprisonment. They consistently remain on the bottom in every economic and social indicator.... yet the Gov't continues to denounce and neglect these people and their treatment.