WA Announces $85,000 Redress Scheme for Members of Stolen Generations

Senator Lidia Thorpe calls on Labor to end the Stolen Generations

Victorian Senator Lidia Thorpe has called on Labor to urgently implement the recommendations of the 1997 Bringing Them Home report, as the systemic removal and incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children continues. Kerry Smith reports.

WA announces $85,000 redress scheme for members of stolen generations

Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their families in Western Australia will receive $85,000 in reparations.

Western Australia Announces Reparations for the ‘Stolen Generations’

Click to expand Image An Aboriginal flag in Perth, Australia, October 7, 2023.  © 2023 Matt Jelonek/Getty Images On Tuesday, the Western Australia state government announced a new reparations program for the “Stolen Generations,” Indigenous children who were forcibly removed from their families under racist policies that began in the early 1900s and lasted into the 1970s. The action follows decades of activism by First Nations peoples.Under the …

WA to Pay $85,000 to Indigenous Survivors of the Stolen Generations

Western Australia (WA) has unveiled a long-awaited scheme to financially compensate members of the Stolen Generations, offering up to $85,000 per person. The scheme will deliver individual taxpayer-funded payments to Aboriginals removed from their families by the state prior to July 1, 1972. State Premier Roger Cook said the gesture was a necessary step. “No amount of money could ever make up for the experience of Stolen Generations members and …

WA stolen generations survivors to receive $85,000 in reparations

Indigenous Australians who were forcibly removed from their families in Western Australia will receive $85...

WA stolen generations members to receive $85,000 each under redress scheme

WA’s scheme is less than Victoria’s $100,000 lump sum payment but more than the $75,000 offered in New South Wales and $30,000 in South Australia.