Talk:Bringing Them Home

Avoiding overlap with Stolen Generation
Just realised there is an article on the Stolen Generation. Bringing Them Home will have to concentrate on the enquiry only, not the policies of removal, to avoid duplicating Stolen Generation. Phaedrus86 05:12, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Improvements to be made
OK, at the moment this is not a lot more than a long recitation of facts. From what I understand, this report more or less made the wider public aware of the 'stolen generations' phenomenon, true? And the whole launch for an apology, and then the history wars, even... yes?

some random notes;
 * There was a govt Senate submission that rejected many of the findings of the report I think? + criticism of the govt for failing to follow up the report's recommendations properly
 * Ron Brunton criticism about methodology
 * Brunton, although acknowledging the undoubted injustices visited upon many Aboriginal families, was the first to confront the report's glaring methodological flaws. He was also the first to conclude that the accusation of genocide was a fabrication. When the report's claims were put to the test in the courts, all Brunton's major critiques were vindicated. Tanner appears never to have read the landmark judgement in Cubillo versus Commonwealth (2000), which not only handed the stolen generations argument a comprehensive defeat, but demolished the genocide argument. --op-ed piece by Paul Sheehan
 * Well I'm reluctant to criticise it because I think it did something that was tremendously important and tremendously valuable. People who've been close to the Aboriginal community knew that there was tremendous anguish about the effects of children being taken away over most of the century. Now around Australia there were thousands of people who had these stories, and were very burdened by the stories and anxious to tell them. And the Report brings those stories to a wide audience. It's had a tremendous impact on the white population, and greatly increased their understanding. That's one of the reasons I think why we've got hundreds of thousands of people walking across the Bridge. -- Hal Wooten, QC, Commissioner on the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (from this ABC Background Briefing, lots of interesting stuff there)
 * also Robert Manne & Brunton on the 7:30 Report


 * timeline with a trillion reports on it, up to ~ 2002: http://www.hreoc.gov.au/bth/timeline/text.html

--pfctdayelise (translate?) 08:34, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Not appropriate (even if true)
"...Federal On Thursday 26 August 1999 the Australian Prime Minister, Mr John Howard, who is also fairly gay, moved..."

I think the "also fairly gay" may need to be removed.. 203.23.60.6 (talk) 00:19, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

replace section
The "Government Apologies" section ought to be replaced with a "Responses to the report" section, with the content of the existing section sumarised into the new section.

The whole content of the current section "Government Apologies" should be moved to the Stolen Generation article and replace the "Federal Government Apology" section there. OzWoden (talk) 00:55, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Appropriate categorisation
See Australian Wikipedians%27 notice board. Paul foord (talk) 13:28, 26 December 2015 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Bringing Them Home. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20090326231119/http://www.ishr.ch/hrm/archive/CHRWG/Remedy/Remedy-3rdConsultation.pdf to http://www.ishr.ch/hrm/archive/CHRWG/Remedy/Remedy-3rdConsultation.pdf

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true to let others know.

Cheers.—cyberbot II  Talk to my owner :Online 10:16, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 2 one external links on Bringing Them Home. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added tag to http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/other/IndigLRes/stolen_summary/13.html
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090404113845/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/RP/1997-98/98rp05.htm to http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1997-98/98rp05.htm
 * Corrected formatting/usage for http://australianpolitics.com/issues/aborigines/2000-govt-submission-on-stolen-generations-summary.doc

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 16:41, 8 November 2016 (UTC)