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Another lost generation

An Australian report shows aboriginal children are being removed from their families at a rate similar to the 1920s. The revelation came in a report submitted to the state of Queensland. It showed that 669 aboriginal children in Queensland were in state care in 2007. Over 700 aboriginal children in the state were forcibly removed from their parents during the 1920s and put under state care, ostensibly to assimilate aboriginal people with the culture of Australia

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