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Bringing Them Home report
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On the 20th anniversary of Sorry Day, May 26, a day to remember the forced removal of First Nations' children from their families that became known as the Stolen Generations, a delegation of First Nations' grandmothers marched on Parliament House chanting "Bring our children home".
Rather than being a landmark for progress and reconciliation the delegation of Grandmothers said that 20 years on, the situation has only worsened.
Twenty years after the original Bringing Them Home report was released, Aboriginal children are still being taken from their parents 鈥 in greater numbers than before.
Commenting on the impact of Bringing Them Home 鈥 which documented evidence about the Stolen Generations of Aboriginal children 鈥 Murri elder Sam Watson told 91自拍论坛 that 鈥渋t is beyond dispute that Aboriginal children were removed in significant numbers鈥.
鈥淓very single [Aboriginal] family was affected,鈥 Watson said and this 鈥渄ated back to the first years of European invasion鈥.