What Wrongs Have White Administrators Done To Aborginal People In The Past? Have All Wrong Been Righted?

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attempt to conceal their cultural
identity," Aboriginal children were taken from the families an forcibly placed
in an institution and were denied further contact with their families.
(Aboriginal legal service, 1995 pp ii)
For white Australia, the feeling of responsibility, shame, apologetic
and sympathetic for what their past people have done to the Aboriginals. The
Aboriginals feeling anguished, rejected and feeling in a sence made "different"
from the Europeans.
"For Aboriginal participants a catharsis for feelings of sorrow and rage,
and it encourages as to anticipate that, after generations of neglect, white
Australia is finally prepared to own the shame of its past, and to accept the
responsibility of effecting real and substancial reparation in the future."
(Aboriginal legal service, 1995 pp ii)
Aboriginal children in Western Australia were removed from their
families until the 1960's. The children were taken from police and 'welfare
offices' to be raised as white ...

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