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What is the 'Bringing Them Home Report'?

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What is the 'Bringing Them Home Report'?

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Google 'Archie Roach' to find:
* 5 pieces of information
* a photo

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* What story does this image tell?
* Find your own image of The Stolen Generation. Share it with a friend and tell them why you chose it. What was their reaction?

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Midnight Oil join the 'Sorry' Campaign at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

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Midnight Oil join the 'Sorry' Campaign at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney

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Watch the performance and read the notes attached.
THINK:
* What impact do you think this performance had?
* How did this performance give a new meaning to the lyrics of this song?

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Midnight Oil - Beds are burning (Live At Olympics 2000)

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Listen to PM Kevid Rudd deliver this famous speech (this is only the introduction - a full version is also available on You Tube)

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Apology to Australia's Indigenous peoples (2008)

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Behind the News helps explain the importance of The National Apology

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Behind the News helps explain the importance of The National Apology

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Click on the FULL TRANSCRIPT button to read these stories.
* What do all of the stories have in common?
* How do the stories make you feel?

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SARAH LARSEN, REPORTER: Can you imagine being taken away from your home and family, being given a new name, even a new religion and maybe never knowing who you are or where you come from?

That's what happened to a lot of kids who belong to what are called the Stolen Generations.

In the 1900s the Australian government took thousands of Indigenous children away from their families and put them into missions or orphanages or with white foster families. That's what happened to Helen Moran and her brother and sister.

HELEN MORAN: Mum and Dad had heard that the welfare was going to come and take the children.

TRISHA MORAN: And next minute we were bundled into two cars and I can remember trying to get out of the police car and screaming and getting into trouble. We had to sit down and be quiet and we saw this dear old lady standing at the gate with tears waving to us and next minute we were just driven away.

HELEN MORAN: We were a family of eight, we lost everybody, we lost each other, we lost our grandparents, my aunts were looking for us. My aunts were knocking on doors and ringing the welfare. We lost our whole family. They changed our names, they changed our whole heritage, our identity.

How could this have happened? Well mostly, it was a lack of understanding.

REPORTER: You've probably read books like this or seen movies telling the stories of Aboriginal people. You might even learn about things like the Dreamtime at school. But you probably know heaps more about Aboriginal culture than your mum and dad did when they were kids.

Now there are Indigenous television stations, authors, artists and filmmakers telling their side of the story. But it hasn't always been that way. When European settlers first came to Australia they thought their own way of life was the only way and Aboriginal people should try to behave more like them.

They thought taking Indigenous kids away from their families would help them blend in with non-Indigenous Australians. Many didn't realise how much pain they were causing. The Prime Minister says up to 50 thousand kids were removed from their homes.

In the 1960s people began to campaign for Aborigines to get better rights. There were protests and Indigenous people started to get their stories heard.

JIMMY LITTLE, SINGER: Tonight I'm not appearing as Jimmy Little the singer but as Jimmy Little the member of a very proud race, the Aborigines. Australia's first people.

In the late 1960s the government stopped taking away Indigenous kids and Australia started to learn about the Stolen Generations from people like singer Archie Roach.

ARCHIE ROACH: I don't want people to feel guilty, I just want them to feel. Something should be done. This history should be told, it's part of Australia's history.

Members of the Stolen Generations like this have been campaigning for many years for an apology and they see the speech by the federal government as a huge step in their lives - a chance to build a new future with the rest of Australia.

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Last week we saw one of the most important days in Australian history. The Prime Minister's apology to the Stolen Generations might have sounded like just another speech but it meant an enormous amount to a lot of people and it might change the country forever. So why is it so important?

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This is the original version of the song.
RESEARCH:
* When was this song written?
* Why?

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THINK:
* What does the performance of this song at an event sponsored by the Government tell us about how our country has changed?

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Took The Children Away - Schools Spectacular 2016