Related Research Articles
The Stolen Generations were the children of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent who were removed from their families by the Australian federal and state government agencies and church missions, under acts of their respective parliaments. The removals of those referred to as "half-caste" children were conducted in the period between approximately 1905 and 1967, although in some places mixed-race children were still being taken into the 1970s.
Sally Jane Morgan is an Australian Aboriginal author, dramatist, and artist. Her works are on display in numerous private and public collections in Australia and around the world.
Larissa Yasmin Behrendt is a legal academic, writer, filmmaker and Indigenous rights advocate. As of 2020 she is a Professor of Law and Director of Research and Academic Programs at the Jumbunna Institute for Indigenous Education and Research at the University of Technology Sydney, and holds the inaugural Chair in Indigenous Research.
Marcia Lynne Langton holds the foundation chair in Australian Indigenous studies at the University of Melbourne in the Faculty of Medicine. In 2016 she became distinguished professor and in 2017, associate provost.
Ruby Langford Ginibi was an acclaimed Bundjalung author, historian and lecturer on Aboriginal history, culture and politics.
Bringing Them Home is the 1997 Australian Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families. The report marked a pivotal moment in the controversy that has come to be known as the Stolen Generations.
Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, also known as Ngarla Kunoth, is an Australian film actress, Aboriginal activist and politician.
Anne Barbara Deveson was an Australian writer, broadcaster, filmmaker and social commentator, who also worked in England.
Robert James "Bob" Randall was an Aboriginal Australian elder, singer and community leader. He was a member of the Stolen Generations and became an elder of the Yankunytjatjara people from Central Australia. He was the 1999 NAIDOC Person of the Year. His 1970 song, "My Brown Skin Baby They Take Him Away," is described as an "anthem" for the Stolen Generations. He was known by the honorific "Tjilpi", a word meaning "old man" that is often translated as "uncle". He lived in Mutitjulu, the Aboriginal community at Uluru in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Lou Bennett is an Indigenous Australian musician, actor and academic researching Aboriginal languages and their retrieval.
Laura Anne "Lolly" de Jonge, née Goulet is a Canadian family advocate, corporate social responsibility practitioner, filmmaker and magazine founder.
Ernestine Bonita Mabo, was an Australian educator and activist for Aboriginal Australians, Torres Strait Islanders, and Australian South Sea Islanders. She was the wife of Eddie Mabo until his death in 1992.
David Selvarajah Vadiveloo is an Australian lawyer, human rights and education consultant, cultural broker and screen producer.
Margaret Lazarus is an American film producer/film director known for her work in documentary film. She and her partner, Renner Wunderlich, received an Oscar in 1993 for their documentary Defending Our Lives, about battered women who were in prison for killing their abusers.
Our Generation is a 2010 Australian documentary film about the struggle of Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory to retain their land, culture and freedom.
Laurie Baymarrwangga (Gawany) Baymarrwaŋa was the senior Aboriginal traditional owner of the Malarra estate, which includes Galiwin'ku, Dalmana, Murruŋga, Brul-brul and the Ganatjirri Maramba salt water surrounding the islands and inclusive of some 300 other named sites. She devoted her life to the intergenerational transmission of the ancestral language and knowledge of her homelands on the Crocodile Islands, for the benefit of future generations.
Lola Edwards (1946–2011) and was a founding member of Link-up (NSW). Edwards was a strong advocate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families, later dubbed the Stolen Generations.
Ningali Josie Lawford was an Australian actress known for her roles in the films Rabbit-Proof Fence (2002), Bran Nue Dae (2009), and Last Cab to Darwin (2015), for which she was nominated for the AACTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.
Patricia Audrey Anderson is an Australian human rights advocate and health administrator. An Alyawarre woman from the Northern Territory, she is well known internationally as a social justice advocate, advocating for improved health, and educational and protection outcomes for Indigenous Australian children.
References
- 1 2 New Internationalist Magazine Australia. "Sinem Saban" . Retrieved 15 September 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- 1 2 3 Our Generation. "The Filmmakers: Sinem Saban" . Retrieved 15 September 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
- ↑ The Guardian (14 February 2011). "'People wanted it to be made': Q&A with Sinem Saban and Damien Curtis – producers of Our Generation". London. Retrieved 15 September 2012.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
