Indigenous Australians Are Fighting the Government to Keep Their Children

Indigenous Australians Are Fighting the Government to Keep Their Children

In February 2008, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd issued a public apology to the country's Indigenous peoples. The apology acknowledged the policies of successive federal and state governments that led to the Stolen Generation — tens of thousands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children forcibly removed from their homes and placed in out-of-home care from the late 1800s right up to the 1970s.