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WHAT "STOLEN GENERATIONS"? BUT HERE COME THE LAWYERS AGAIN

Here comes another "stolen generations" court case for compensation, two decades after a very similar one collapsed - when the truth came out. But who cares about the truth now? Who will dare ask the questions that were asked back then?

What changed? Two decades ago, lawyers signed up 700 Aborigines in the Northern Territory who claimed they’d been stolen from their parents.
 

They then mounted the first test case to prove there’d been a “stolen generations” and get compensation. And failed completely when the truth came out in court.

Yet nothing can stop the “stolen generations” story, now taught as true in our schools.

Legal firm Shine Lawyers is trying again, this time signing up 800 Aborigines in the Northern Territory for a class action to again demand compensation from the federal government.

And again the ABC is treating allegation as truth, calling the 800 claimants “survivors and descendants” of the “stolen generations”, and interviewing claimants with zero scepticism.

It’s as if the Federal Court case of 2000 had never happened. As if anything challenging the damaging and deadly “stolen generations” myth must be racist.

You will hear a lot of emotive claims in the media as this latest class action hits the court, and very little questioning by journalists or politicians of claims that racist white officials stole children from loving parents just because they were Aboriginal.

So let me remind you what happened to the first case, which the ABC pushed just as credulously.

(Read the full column here.)

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