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| Subject: OZschwitz slave pen: the emergence of a new stolen generation Fri Feb 13, 2015 3:03 am | |
| Former prime minister Kevin Rudd has warned of a new type of "stolen generation", highlighting the growing number of Indigenous children being removed from their families because efforts to tackle disadvantage under the Closing the Gap initiative are flailing.
Kevin Rudd apologised to the stolen generations as prime minister seven years ago in Labor's first Parliamentary act after its 2007 landslide victory. At an anniversary breakfast in Sydney on Friday, the former Labor leader said he delivered the apology not for a "fleeting feel-good moment" but in an effort to unite the nation in closing the gap of Indigenous disadvantage.
But he said an "explosion" in Indigenous incarceration rates and a 400 per cent increase in the number of children being removed from their home noted in this year's Closing the Gap report made for "sobering" reading.
http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/kevin-rudd-warns-of-the-emergence-of-a-new-stolen-generation-20150213-13dvvh.html |
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