{"id":2046,"date":"2017-11-02T04:48:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T04:48:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/?page_id=2046"},"modified":"2017-11-02T04:48:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-02T04:48:28","slug":"the-apology-to-the-stolen-generations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/learning-pathways\/the-stolen-generations\/the-apology-to-the-stolen-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Apology to the Stolen Generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\" class=\"mw-body container\" role=\"main\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<div class=\"panel\">\n<div class=\"panel-body\">\n<div id=\"bodyContent\">\n<div id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" class=\"mw-content-ltr\"><div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"key point\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/ind\/Icon_key_idea.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Key Idea<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><i>The Apology to the Stolen Generations provided important official national acknowledgement of the harm caused by government policies and practices.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:252px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:RuddSorry.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/d\/da\/RuddSorry.jpg\/250px-RuddSorry.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"167\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Kevin Rudd on screen in Federation Square, Melbourne, apologising to the stolen generations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The question of an apology to the Stolen Generations became a political issue in Australia after the Bringing them Home inquiry and report, with the former Prime Minister John Howard adamant in his refusal to apologise to the Stolen Generations on behalf of the Australian nation. With a change in government in 2007, the new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a national apology on 13 February 2008.<br \/>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"reading\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/ind\/Icon_reading_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Required Reading\/Viewing<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Video and Transcript of the former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/australia.gov.au\/about-australia\/our-country\/our-people\/apology-to-australias-indigenous-peoples\">Apology Speech to the Stolen Generations<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p>Watch the Video and Transcript of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrights.gov.au\/news\/speeches\/response-government-national-apology-stolen-generations\">response to the Prime Ministers Sorry Speech by Tom Calma<\/a>, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice and Human Rights Commissioner, Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC):\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"panel iDevice\">\n\t<div class=\"panel-heading idevice-heading\">\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"pedagogicalicon\" alt=\"activities\" src=\"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-content\/themes\/oeru_course\/idevices\/ind\/Icon_learning_activity.png\">\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t<h2>Learning Activity<\/h2>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<div class=\"panel-body\">\n\t\t<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><b>The impacts of removal<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"thumb tright\">\n<div class=\"thumbinner thumbnail\" style=\"width:252px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/WikiEducator.org\/File:Sorry_Day_poster.jpg\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sorry Day poster.jpg\" src=\"\/\/WikiEducator.org\/images\/thumb\/1\/18\/Sorry_Day_poster.jpg\/250px-Sorry_Day_poster.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"177\" class=\"thumbimage img-responsive\"><\/a>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"thumbcaption\">Sorry Day poster<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Look at your table from the previous learning activity for the topic Assimilation and \u2018Biological Absorption&#8217;. What can you add in the Effects on people column from this week\u2019s readings? Think about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> structures of Indigenous kinship systems\n<\/li>\n<li> relations to country\n<\/li>\n<li> transmission of the Dreaming to future generations of Indigenous Australians\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As well as the more personal impacts:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> loss of identity\n<\/li>\n<li> loss of family connection\n<\/li>\n<li> poor life circumstances\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCPU time usage: 0.146 seconds\nReal time usage: 8.124 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 302\/1000000\nPreprocessor generated node count: 947\/1000000\nPost\u2010expand include size: 7597\/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 2911\/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 7\/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0\/100\n--><\/p>\n<p><!-- Saved in parser cache with key wikiedu-mw_:pcache:idhash:169078-0!*!*!*!*!2!* and timestamp 20171102044814 and revision id 1005832\n -->\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"visualClear\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\n<ul class=\"pager\">\n<li class=\"previous\">\n            <a href=\"\/inda102\/learning-pathways\/the-stolen-generations\/the-continuing-impact-of-removal\">\u2190 Previous<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<li class=\"next\">\n            <a href=\"\/inda102\/learning-pathways\/the-stolen-generations\/further-reading-and-references\">Next \u2192<\/a>\n          <\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer>\n<br \/>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Rudd on screen in Federation Square, Melbourne, apologising to the stolen generations. The question of an apology to the Stolen Generations became a political issue in Australia after the Bringing them Home inquiry and report, with the former Prime Minister John Howard adamant in his refusal to apologise to the Stolen Generations on behalf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":2034,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2046","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2046\/revisions\/2047"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/course.oeru.org\/inda102\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}