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a stolen generation of indigenous people for policies that systematically removed them from their families. but today more indigenous children are being removed than ever before. leading some to ask is this a new stolen generation. i'm steve cho on this episode a one on one east we investigate the crisis facing australia's indigenous families and the systems meant to protect them. a fair. they may look like any happier strain family celebrating

a mother's birthday but heartache isn't far beneath the surface. helen niece and her children have spent is torn apart. and one just to have been this is the lead in. and the unit. along so much. like thousands of other indigenous families or of helen's children were removed by child will. after a long legal battle the family was reunited just over a year ago. young form. and you have so many times you are not whole if someone like. as much as that all of their are all in pieces can never ever be put back together.

for eighteen year old rain the memories of being removed when he was a teen still rule. and how did you feel that. did you have any sense of why they were taking in our. band. at first reign in his younger brother and sister were placed with the same foster carer but he sister ran away and mine was moved away from his brother. like. six really abused as a child and the victim of domestic chronons as an adult helen suffers from bipolar

disorder and was addicted to drugs. the brain says he always felt loved. the falafel. i'm on you went to school. with any time when you felt on site. or on cared for. though never in danger always always. diamont by beast and i will break your door. helen's mother told child she was prepared to care for her grandchildren i could have all that thirty six grandchildren i could have all of them except marvelous children in my home when you ask them or i and my insertable i said we don't have to answer that. and.

it was it was. this was one of the visit and we just try and make everything as normal as possible and still like that family unit. helen says she saw her children really when they were in k. so how many visits did you have with them always saying no i just said the four times a year too. two hours four times a year training marino is a lot more like you with i think it was for me and then it went to monthly that would have fame like a mom. and how we view it that's always following all the still struggling with the marijuana but as the with all of us to everyone. for years after her all the children

removed her fifteen month old baby was taken. things go crazy i don't know. remember is. different. bathing the. need to taking one. helen went into a downward spiral she then the father of her two youngest children ending up in prison for drug crimes. that are. here some in some situations kids should be taken before you take them too and i hope the paper for. the family. has a dark history of forcibly removing indigenous children from their homes placing them in institutions or with white family. they know him as the stolen generation.

in two thousand and eight then prime minister kevin rudd made a nice story cupola gee we apologize for the laws and policies of successive parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief suffering and loss on these our fellow stratton's. the prime minister's speech was meant to heal the wounds of the past to the mothers and the father those the brothers of the sisters for the breaking up of families and communities we say sorry. a decade on helen nice and then her mother take to the streets of sydney lady a challenge to stop indigenous children being removed from their families. they started in no nationwide organization called grandmothers against removals

were bought for out by you got you feel quite happy now why no no no wait i want to bring you a piece of. my view. on the tenth anniversary of the apology optimism has turned to despair in the past decade the number of indigenous children being removed from their families. and the numbers and now homeland then in the country's history today aboriginal children are almost ten times more likely to be placed in out of home care the non-indigenous children to a stolen generation never stopped it's all been a bad. genocide. it's never been bad the protection of the children. almost three thousand kilometers away in the central strain in town of alice

springs the child welfare crisis is dividing the launch of local indigenous community. there's no point saying we're creating another stolen generation and stopping kids from being a man from really horrible circumstances we've got the highest numbers of family fall and we've got the highest right solve you know child neglect and abuse. and this is why our children are being removed that's a simple fact and if we cannot recognize them acknowledge that we're not going to actually get around to fixing the problem because it starts with actually recognizing that we just seem to price is an alice springs counselor and has invasions to into the national political arena but her blunt message is gruen school on an angle today she's heading to court with her mother and father to get a protection order after her death threat i've been called a sellout because my detractors basically think that i should remain quiet and i should. just regurgitate the same old rhetoric and view myself as

a victim to what colonise ation whereas i'd simply rather just be a human being and a woman who is more concerned about the the welfare of aboriginal women and children and i guess i'm attacked because i speak a lot of the truth and these trees are really hurtful truth. just seems his family isn't immune to the problems faced by many aboriginal family . at the scene did eunice camp on the outskirts of alice springs she and her mother introduces to their keen. julie looks after three children from their extended family and another six are

under the care of close family friend marian. we can't identify the children for legal reasons they were given to me because of their mum and their parents drinking a lot you know letting these kids. marry and he's in a blood relative nor indigenous but lifelong bones have made good just like family they are all family in their will realise i've had him since he was a baby and i just sort of kept coming one after the other and i couldn't shut the door. will us alcohol last. month just to our. twenty's. to alcohol as well and yeah just. there are.

three of the boys living with marion suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome. their mother's heavy drinking during pregnancy has left them with hearing and spinal disorders as well as cognitive and behavioral problems they say specialist every stray months with their alcohol syndrome there are medications but recently the family was forced into mediation over one of the boys after living with marian's family in town for. the past two years some of these other relatives want emplaced with them on a remote aboriginal community. and i said no they want him to stay. because when he was passing on her deathbed she asked me to take him to bring him up with his sister and that he had all the opportunities for him to have a good life and didn't come back out on community where there wasn't any services.

problems i think we need more more you know women right mary and. i think we need to get past the point of. you know separating us all from rice and recognising that we're in fact human beings and these children human beings their strata citizens and i deserve the same rights as any other child in this country but we're putting their culture before their rights as human beings and i think that's where the system is failing them and of course the stigma that has been brought about because of the original stolen generation or think. extension of the stolen generation so. you seem to prices view is rejected by the local town indira council c.e.o. walter shaw if you remove aboriginal children from community you also shop in every community one could say that these children being placed in. the care and

protection of welfare and the foster care runs with children being doctrine with values other than being a brutal people. of the aboriginal children in foster care forty percent are placed with no one indigenous family. his council wants to change this and keep children in their community. for organization is an imperative for think. we need to move to a system where we support families have a functional and strong aboriginal families to become those foster carers who have set up a family safety group but. they are talking sensitively around all forms of all of this community domestic you know talking about the the alcohol issue the drug issue . but for a sixteen year old sarah it's

a case of too little too light she was born into a family plagued by drug and alcohol fuelled domestic violence. just so just well wildstar. sarah's mother denise became involved with serious phone though when she was thirteen and he was eighteen she says the department of children and families or d.c. if placed to with her boyfriend's family despite their relationship bait me like real bad like a few on a few occasions and they say if was well aware of that they had to take my possible a few times i just felt like i was palmed off and left and forgotten about. and i didn't have the chance to lay that the courage to even all the support to leave

that relationship rotten twenty three twenty four. but when she escaped to alice springs with her three kids to live with her dad she says she couldn't cope and you could imagine in my language that these baiting these woman and. everything in the house i went to see have office and i asked them for help and thinking that they would have been some kind of supports there but there wasn't the stress levels ended up getting higher there like i couldn't really keep the kids under control. and so they were running amok and getting out of control i then started to smack and hit my kids she has to like come back drunk and we would be sleep in their room and she had come in. one day after school. and i. mean mom was. killing. me giving me two black. and sent me to school the next they would.

within seven year old sarah that lived. in residential. it was all arrive. and also young. and then. later. on the standing. around town. the suburbs of alice springs are littered with series for much. and many made altogether in many places during every twenty plus in just a nice. that's a lot of places. this. we'll tell you about that widely. as we pass another residential facility the memories good.

she says an assault by a care worker when she was a live in has left her traumatised and they just kept on looking at me funny wise but didn't think anything of it and i. still. think anything of. the have a nice legs fly was down. and i went to her and then. i was just. in the room as i was going to sleep. he walked in the. dust. a year later at another care facility she says she was repeatedly abused by a boy a couple of years older than her tried to. smash his head in with them a lamp close wrong and you know i wasn't and i think it's just stuff defending

myself and cares believe me and one of us and a cord mum to come. because that will leave me. the department of children and families says it can't comment on individual cases but records show that almost ten percent of children in out of home care in the northern territory are abused neglected or exploited. to sarah it was a turning point her life span out of control she began running away from care homes living on the streets or at her mother's and committing crimes out felt safe. and. what i didn't care. just tendril heartless for good. and just. to make

a good reason to get locked up you know i had just a guy a break ins to people's cars. best people in street. everything and little. devil. she's told me some horrific stories about being abused by other residents workers and just about complete lack of care for her as a human being can you call a series through your at the height of her film when she was about twelve. kids who are under the care of the minister then become kids in the criminal justice system that we've already quit playing and our very closely there's an interaction because often territory families lose track of the kids and which means a bicycle left to the one devices for long periods of time and that's how i got to know i say it again and then with his life. and it was developed an unexpected friendship as her ex lawyer should come and see me and say how long will

you know we had a good. ship obviously i wasn't being supported by the families she had a very difficult time live in i things that we all take for granted she wasn't having i'm sorry i started to sort of pie for her food every day i buy her clothes and when i try and support her. just like the moon she just lies to me and we just bonded together. issue for me to stuff. but it wasn't to be. it was very challenging because i. knew hard that he can be the person who can cite if someone will deliver them a better life and but the reality is that it's not as clear cut as that when all the streets. and the rules are followed was more. i didn't have to listen to anyone

else because i wasn't straight no one cared about me and then she stepped in the moment to care for me and it was just hard to click. to the routines again. yeah this. is and difficult. sara went back to live it a mother's place with her boyfriend and extended family dysfunction and traumatic unsustainable. difficult. it's not quite. sarah's mother continues to struggle with drug and alcohol addiction today she's it caught for a number of assault charges and for being intoxicated while. i'm not

a person that drinks a day or every week and all that sort of stuff but they have been occasions in the past way has led to violence. to you. yet with me in my state. but not with my kids are my dime my kids when i'm intoxicated and stuff like. i say here but i've done it as a big difference. every time and i'll get my kids a plain sight i haven't been intoxicated and one day sarah turns up at the court but she's not happy about it she wants me to stand up in court and tell the judge that she shouldn't go to jail sharrock and she should tell. my father the after everything she's done to us she can no i with she he says his guns change. yet last night she was training can do the same. her mother gets

a reprieve but is told she needs to do a rehabilitation program. just look at that like. yeah i learned how does that make you know women. are in kid's life so you want to get help to get help so that she doesn't. bring her. home she has now got the maturity to actually this is not about me anymore it's about my mom and mom has got i'm problems that i'm issues. and i can myself have a better life not one of the paper is mistakes and that's really am compelling and wonderful thing to say i'm sorry and that from someone who used to be nine in this town is probably you know the number one. dislikes needs a friend to have turned her life sour on now. sarah's not been in trouble

for more than three years. she's now her own guardian and remarkably has started a police cadet cheap they may not live under the same roof but she intended to continue to have a strong and she is lacking a mother in my mother's tenure. denise. because turn a lot more for me and help me a lot was a woman's. she is a good role model tanya has been sarah's i. don't know where sarah would be now without her i am so grateful. for him if i could give him my heart i would give it. she came along and did something i couldn't or yeah. love passes never gonna leave me you know can't be there with me i just gotta learn

to cope with it i discovered to say all that happened to me deal with it me one the sort i. tried and. it does get hard but i try. sarah may have survived a broken family and a dangerously flawed child protection system but the sorry fact remains that a decade on from the government's apology to the stolen generation indigenous children are increasingly at risk. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places together.

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