Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional References Committee's inquiry into the Stolen Generation
Legal
Submission to the Senate
Legal and Constitutional References Committee's inquiry into the Stolen
Generation
The Australian Human Rights
Commission has made a submission to the Senate Legal
and Constitutional References Committee inquiry into the stolen generation.
The submission considers
the adequacy and effectiveness of the government's response to the report
of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander Children from their families, Bringing
them home.
The submission considers
the adequacy of the government's response to the recommendations of the
report; addresses the arguments put by the government in its submission
to the same inquiry (particularly questioning the methodology of Bringing
them home and the basis for making reparation, including
monetary compensation); and examines recent international developments
in responding to violations of human rights.
The Table
of Contents and Executive
Summary are available here.
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You may also wish
to read Opening
comments by Dr William Jonas, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
Social Justice Commissioner, Australian Human Rights Commission
at the Public hearing held on 12 July 2000.
Last updated 2 December 2001.