Stolen Generations

Privacy commissioners from around the nation have promised a consistent approach to accessing records of Stolen Generations survivors. 

The federal government will deliver a financial and wellbeing redress scheme for Stolen Generations survivors from the NT, the ACT and Jervis Bay.

A new online learning module about the impact child-removal policies have had on intergenerational trauma is designed to teach archivists supporting Stolen Generations survivors and their families. 

Findings from an online survey conducted by the Marumali Program on behalf of the Healing Foundation have demonstrated the ways Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were impacted by COVID-19 public health orders around Australia. 

Radically new fixes for Indigenous disadvantage have not had the impact hoped, and in some cases have measurable harm. An iterate approach may be more effective in sharing with Indigenous Australians the fairness, opportunity and security enjoyed by the majority, writes former Aboriginal Affairs minister Fred Chaney.

To everyday Australians, Kevin Rudd in 2007 was the prototypical image of a public servant: helpful, polite, across the detail of both policy and implementation. Sarah Ferguson’s documentary on the Rudd/Gillard years begins with the familiar relationship between minister and secretary, but in extraordinary circumstances.