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these native australians are protesting against the death of a member of their community in prison. they want those responsible to face justice course the contrary. to start the style. the numbers are back to that right. good. talk in less than 30 years. 474. aboriginal australians have died in detention or police custody 6 and a half times more than white people over the same period. the relatives of those killed want closure. lay tony dungy has been fighting for 5 years for justice for her son david, who was serving a sentence for robbery and assault. december 29th, 2015. this body cam footage shows guards trying to transfer david to another cell.
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he resists the letters, served to identify the guards. i got them on the phone with david is taken to the cell and placed on a bed. then a nurse at ministers, a sedative, directv oh, his breathing becomes labor. seconds later, david loses consciousness and never wakes up again. to me please, even now you know how it took family lawyers months to obtain this video. no one has yet been held accountable. now that gone all at a surprise, separated to reflect what they do. aboriginal playful. it wasn't fighting. they
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just rammed in only all 6 of them. fall. verizon is flies, the squashed in. when he come, i'm demand above him and i brought the bad upon them. i shall be john the death of an indigenous australians in prison has never resulted in a conviction historian and human rights activist. padraic gibson says this is due to systemic racism within australian authorities to actually justify that sort of obscene leon. just situation, you need to day humanize the paypal. you need to make out, you know, as die that die less than, than everyone else. and that plays out every die in all facets of society. more than 200 years after colonization by the british. many 1st australians still live like outsiders in their own nation. the hidden face of a country viewed by many as
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a paradise. australia has a population of 26000000. it's territory is $21.00 times the size of germany. a nation with a booming economy, a dream destination for immigrants. every year, 200000 applicants are granted a visa font. the adela postcards conceal a drama that's been playing out or 2 centuries. the tragedy of native australians, the countries modern indigenous communities are descended from the world's oldest civilization. they've been marginalized since the arrival of white settlers and the early 19th century. they were massacred in the thousands or forcibly assimilated into white society, placed in convents or foster families. indigenous children were taught to behave like good little white children. governments of used assimilation policies to try
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and create a single uniform white society for decades. many indigenous people to day have pale skin as a result, but whatever their color, they remain. second class citizens. i got no family who got my al address live in a long garage. yeah, that's right. people come into this into a star, you think another to lucky country that way living has 1st i believe, and i said, well, country, even though i land as the conservative right wing has risen to or in australia, other minorities have felt increasingly marginalized. immigration policies have been tightened. australians of african and asian heritage, or those who are muslim are worried. they're unsettled by increasing anti immigrant sentiment in certain sectors of society. many toys i've been told to go back to my country ash. and i love because i said on this is my country i was born he off
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the far right has gained traction in australia. in recent years, new xenophobic parties openly express their hatred of foreigners. china looks like china because it's full of chinese people. you know, what will this, charlie look like when it is no white people that you know, it won't look like australia. the muslim community is also a target of the radical right ban. muslim immigration? i may personally, i would a identify them on march 15th, 2019 and australian white supremacist murdered. 51 muslims. that a mosque in christ church. new zealand, 49. others were seriously injured. australia's minorities live in fear. they're especially critical of the country's justice system. it's
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notoriously repressive with young people and children in particular despite his white skin. dylan is of native australian heritage. he's already spent 8 of his 21 years in prison for theft and armed robbery and went out to 12 is alvin judges made an example on the expenses made it 23 months ago. i was i was not. no, i think it's really my last year i was able to get any of my love, my love, childhood and stuff like that that goes in and that childhood was difficult, marred by poverty, drugs, and bad influences. he ran afoul of the law as a minor prison was hell. this is in october
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2010 to 12 years old. and this is the thing, right, and that this is the 1st and that a saudi me with another indigenous male officer. we exchanged words, a charged santa sped on in and fixing up by the show. it takes me into the room and slams me down on my shoulder onto the mattress. and that was one of the 1st times i really had to go in and. and he was 16, frustrated for about 2 and a half, 3 hours because bad on police spent prison officers before being manhandled from bigger people than me. i couldn't fall back. i couldn't push them off me less i wanted to. i knew ways that i could really get back of them like in language, make them feel the way i'm feeling while they're doing that sort of stuff. to me,
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i'm alice being treated like an animal. this footage was published in 2016 by an independent commission of inquiry. it cast dylan as the symbol of a lost written off youth. why would you definitely think there is a right is she i my father does go to indigenous people with the really, with nothing about rehabilitating to chime. my gosh young people, better people with more met, shannon break us and john upon us as for what we've done. one of the guards was made the subject of a criminal investigation. but to date, none have been convicted. other minorities also suffer discrimination in australia . nationalist xenophobic groups agitate against muslims, 1st and foremost, fraser adding is the country's most controversial politician in the wake of the christ church attack. his comments trigger
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a wave of outrage. this video goes viral. they sort of things happen when, when people are getting attacked, you know, a frequent to provoke at tour fraser ending became widely known in australia after he reference the holocaust in his 1st speech as senator for queensland, the final solution to the immigration problem of course is a popular vote the senator is campaigning for his reelection. he has always denied referencing the nazi regime in his speeches. final solution taken out of context in the 9 years leading up to that 22 other politicians in parliament and use the same 2 words in speeches, night and no one got upset about it. they'll put labels on you like me, i see white supremacist races, all those things. they're all law is. i can tell you in the i mean i fight hard for
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the jewish community, particularly the israelis it's election day. and the senator has come to support his candidate in a district just outside brisbin. disappointed by the other far right, political parties, fraser, and founded his own nationalist movement. to day, he hopes to win a few more seats in parliament. and he has an unambiguous program to drastically reduce immigration and to permanently ban muslims from entering the country. so there hasn't been a country on this planet that's embracing the muslims and had them come in here that is not male file site or a muslim nation. i don't believe that aside and people want to become a minority in their own country and i'm speaking about so that i'm being called a racist. and i'm happy to be called rice is if that's what they want to call me, that's fine. what's the band muslim? immigration, me personally,
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i would identify them because they're killing us in the street. like we do with any other criminals who are trying to kill you. you want to know where they're going to be. otherwise we're just going to lose more. going to stride is not i think we need to proposals rooted in hatred and fake news. only 4 people in australia have ever been killed in attacks by islamist terrorists . very endings program finds resonance. only nice to meet the just like very much immigration policy. and 2nd, tied into that, this is just try it 1st and then it needs to be yes is try list and note the rest of the well. but we need to solve a wine problem space, as i for ice or any which is dry, your industry and that's more and the election results come in a few days later. unfortunately,
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for fraser and none of his candidates are elected. and he even loses his own seat and the senate to his former more moderate party. nevertheless, xenophobic political parties have proliferated and consolidated voter support in recent years. in order to understand this trend, we have set up a meeting with one of the foremost observers of australian politics and tim. so parmesan is a professor at the university of sydney. he also served as the countries race discrimination commissioner. problem of racism in australia has historical roots. it goes all the way back to the history of colonization, of the streaming continent by the british. i remember that astray leah, when it became a political nation in 9 st. i. one. this was a place that was defined by diseases of white racial integrity. the advent of
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a multicultural society in australia, dates back early to the 19 seventy's. it has been a successful society when it comes to multiculturalism and mass immigration, but they were still remnants of old attitudes about rice. and unfortunately, we're seeing more and more political axes becoming emboldened to vent racist ideas in public, in a way that we haven't seen for some time in an irony of history. these xenophobic ideas are often defended by australians who are themselves, descendants of immigrants. melbourne in southern australia in this small suburban church. the service is conducted by a pastor of sri lankan origin. here they pray to god and ask him to protect the country's borders
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ah nay. following the national elections asked daniel ny leah and his congregation are in 7th heaven. the conservatives have just won a large majority, and the new prime minister is a devout christian, and an advocate of stricter immigration controls. he's a visio, i'm also said that they don't want it in private. is that a man of god? the pastor is 1st and foremost, a politician. he has founded a party to defend a christian australia in the face of what he calls a muslim invasion. like today, all 30 castille this dian islam is growing. why is it because
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people are struggling to judge and texas, i mean soul and they have gone into mosque all over europe. we see the mess. you get the message then was a standing go to watch. we don't watch the new dig the nation. and they still the enemy office does it that says ungodliness not to spell? i'm gotten it us. and the little come against that attack, right? no, no need for something to happen. often schooling, daniel nie leah was persecuted in sri lanka for belonging to a christian minority and sought refuge in australia 22 years ago. he soon became an ardent nationalist. he says he's not against the presence of different ethnic groups, but claims islam is incompatible with the values of his adopted nation. the pastor is conducting a religious war world. this is wally with his love gone. would lead us ne. and
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there can say we're supposed to believe connect to saying is as well as this in regard raises my skin color was an advantage for me. i thought a thing i would have found upon to have body to satirize people strip on the split up us to attack a poet, montgomery. so and keep australia, australia he has made his skin color, the banner of his own unrestrained opinion. since the early 2 thousands, he's appeared on many television programs, peddling his anti islam message. we have a choice nation of what's rally a read against oil, the koran and follow, you saw me shot me a lot and be placing this nation. all one of the bible and be a free and democratic society. every most is potentia. please for edison to breed. unfortunately disapproved. chill, who opposed to mosque looting, thus be pushing the field, the dose, no need for mo, most who abused in australia. i despite pastor ny leah and his message,
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there are now several 100 mosques in australia. most of australia's 600000 muslims live in sidney or more precisely in la camber, a suburb of the city, the largest mosque and australia is here. oh, during ramadan, it can accommodate a 10000 people a night. but more recently, prayers have been tinge with fear. friday prayers are coming to an end at the la tampa mosque. off mont, and australian of lebanese heritage. ensures the safety of the congregation funded by how are you, how's it going? good, good. we're praying here tonight. yeah, who's your father present? i could come here every night. yes, i got on was
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a lump sum awful. the hoffman has called upon australian politicians to put a stop to the stigmatization of muslims. we hope that it would open the eyes and minds of people in the hearts to steer away from any defensive language. and that can lead to acts that people willing to act upon these while acts. everyone has their own agenda and sometimes they play into that rhetoric for the sake of the political gains. unfortunately, sometimes they just got overboard. in the face of such hatred, some muslims have decided to act with a few kilometers from downtown sydney. an association is working to dismantle that cliches that have become synonymous with the muslim community. founded by sure, and australian of lebanese origin, this citizens initiative group comes to the aid of the impoverished. i was born in
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this country. my parents came here in i, you gotta make me choke. my parents came here in the seventy's and dumb that came from a one time country. the fact that all was announced not to be born in a public hospital for free. i went to a public school for free. you know, i was able to have my children. i was trailer, gave us so much. i wanted me, and the muslims that have migrated to his country of bonnie's country to give back to this beautiful country called history. like shoves parents, many of australia's muslims arrived in the 1970s. but for them and subsequent generations. integration remains difficult. dealing with prejudice is part of everyday life for show many times, many times i've been told to go back to my country ash. and i love because i said
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on this is my country. i was born here. oh, where do you want me to go? what we got to grocery shopping. we got a lot of people say a very racist remark out loud. like, don't blow us up. or you terrorists? oh sama, what we're hoping that we break in that barrier and reducing his them a phobia in this country. steve is a christian. he became a volunteer for the association a year ago. before that he too was prejudiced against muslims. i want to think what, what a one or 2 on 9 understand that not old good old on play. not all. the better. a positive example that counters the slogans of a racist minority. the christ church attack was perpetrated by brenton
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tarrant, a white australian supremacist. his actions were unanimously condemned by all political parties in australia. public outrage has since forced the most radical extremists to keep a low profile. we have an appointment in melbourne with a man who knew the terrorist. tom sewell is the founder of a small, far right extremist group, called the lad's society, as he's being closely monitored by intelligent services. sewell asked to meet us in the street. he didn't choose the place by chance. well, if you look around, you'll see that there is not so many australians i if you had a family home, how would you feel about all these people living in your basement? like it was some share house. you know, before i was born, this was a white working class suburb. you know, and now while we've been almost the only white people in this entire suburb, you know, so it shows that the colonization is almost complete. authorities have been
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watching the group since christ church sewell had actually tried to recruit brenton tarrant, several years ago. i had conversations with him online because i noticed that he displayed similar beliefs to us. he didn't want to be involved in what we're doing . and he said that he was moving to new zealand, and that was the last communication that i had with him. this was several years ago . and the government considers that enough of an association that we're to be treated as terrors. we have to keep our meetings and our locations secret. this is where the lads society usually meets. in this video, the organization is presented as an ordinary private sports club for men only. in reality, it's a secret society with very clear political objectives. with so many searing what they call the great replacement
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sewell and his group dream of an all white state. our goal is to create an ethno state. our goal is to create what australia used to be, and we need to organize ourselves so that we have our own parallel institutions around land, around cities. so that when the conflict does come, when the geopolitical instability does come, we're safe and preserved. and we have all of our things already in place to create a new nation, like soule, the australian, far right aspires to create in apartheid state based on racial segregation. although australia has never actually seen such extremes, whites and indigenous australians have lived a part for years. the district of red vern and sydney is home to indigenous and migrant communities. it has long grappled with poverty, crime, and drugs. it's also experienced police violence and riots. the streets of redfern became a bloody battlefield on the 14th of february, 2004,
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a 17 year old aboriginal boy had died earlier that afternoon. he was impaled on a fence, leading police on his bike. hundreds of protesters took to the streets, armed with paving stones and molotov cocktails. they battled officers all night long. the situation in redfern has improved in recent years. partly thanks to the efforts of shane phillips, one of its community leaders. this former boxer collects his protege at 5 in the morning 3 times a week. he believes discipline will keep them on the straight and narrow. musk is going to be a slip to 7 o'clock in the morning with kids after the up fourish 3 to be picked up at 1 o'clock. we want them to learn about the strength of lp, one of the land routine and discipline, and focus and doing this early in the morning. a lot of government, graham's also the program i've driven by deficits to what's wrong with athletes
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programmes designed by us. and it's driven by strength as what these kids with many of them have a police record. the hope is that mutual respect and resilience will prevent relapses. with james joined the program a week ago. but 21 year old has just served a 2 year sentence for robbery atmosphere with
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crime has dropped 70 percent in redfern since 2010. sidney's. former slum is slowly getting back on its beat. while many indigenous people struggled to find a place in society, others have achieved success. miriam corolla is a prime example. the daughter of an aboriginal mother and an english father. she has become a household name as a journalist. hello. miriam presents the t v. news for a b c, one of the biggest australian broadcasters. her program is regularly watched by more than 1000000 australians. i still pinch myself when i think about what i do
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and where i am, can have an idea of what you want to day. but sometimes you might be reluctant to give it a guy, so it's always nice to think that you can help people understand that it's not possible deny it is still unusual to see aboriginal people on t. v. craig, her director, has worked for a b, c for 20 years, but he has rarely worked with native australians these days. so we are seeing a lot more diversity. i. miriam is still very much an exception. i know it, it is getting better and certainly it's getting better in the media as opposed to say drama french since, which is still very much a typical more to stride. yeah. look, miriam is a respected journalist to day, but her career has been an uphill struggle. if i hadn't read even to find that
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discrimination at school and bullying, racism and things like that. i wouldn't have gone on to finish high school because i wouldn't have gone onto university. and without those things, then my options for even having in korea would be really, really limited. sensor divorce. miriam has been raising her 6 year old son alone. he like his mother is growing up between 2 cultures. his father is a white australian, and i mean, he knows he's aboriginal, it was quite funny. and it just shows how innocent children are because he was asked about it last year. he said, yes, i'm aboriginal, my dad's aboriginal and human studies background in irish, in german. so it's quite fair with blue eyes and everything. i just saw. all it's funny why that's kinda cute, you know, because he doesn't associate with a particular appearance. miriam grew up in the 1970s. in those days,
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it was uncommon to see mixed couples in australia. for a long time, she grappled with her own identity. hi, this is may with my sister and my mom will little little little little. this is my mom when she was go for a long time, i really struggled with this idea of i'm not accepted by mainstream society, but i am i am really aboriginal because you know, i am highly educated. i've been tina this fee of working the media. you know, i don't leave necessarily in a communities such and those sorts of things that people typically associated weeping operational. i'm not necessarily fitting that box, but some united times gone on. we realize that, you know, you can be aboriginal and all the rest miriam hopes her story will inspire other young, aboriginal people. how people a think what you and she's optimistic about the future stories. now,
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we still have extraordinary problems. we've in our economic disadvantage, we'd incarceration and we have one of the world twist rates of youth suicide in indigenous communities. i'm sorry, it goes to show that it's something very wrong. do i have heart? yeah, i do. yeah. already my life is a world away from that of my mom and my grandmother. i'm able to have trains and great size goals. and i think for my son even more say so. yeah, there is heart. we'll see how he gary, ah, miriam grew up in sydney, a large urban area full of opportunities. but the further you get from the big cities, it's a totally different picture. primarily in the north of the continent, over 4000 kilometers from sydney beyond the australian bush and the wild plains lies darwin. it's the capital of the northern territory. the country's most
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northerly state. darwin is the drop off point for native australians hoop left the bush and come to the city often without work or a place to stay hundreds and up on the streets. there looked after by an aid organization called lira key, a nation after the regions largest tribe kyle and his partner patrol the streets every day. i guess coming from the communities sometimes on the house. you know they come here so which city area? well, my wallclear over there. yeah. morning. how are you, brother? i'm well, thank you mark you nation. you ok. right on the streets today.
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he wants to get it. you know, just for the $91100.00 that that money will come back in the bus. but if you can check it back, the wagon with the organization can only offer emergency health. it doesn't have the means to provide shelter for all of the cities homeless. we've been here, we've really seen and years and that's how we live in down when the day's over kyle and his partner, head back to their base in the early morning. another leora key a team takes over its mission, is to find those who spent the night in custody and bring them back to a safe place. good morning. okay,
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available soon as we start taking them away. we'll come and pick you up then, and thank you for just a point where you are bra. kevin has been doing this for 20 years. well, he's watched his community gradually deteriorate some of them bad drugs. now that i've come here like arson, stop law, some of them are taking that stuff to in this part of to, for them to can i get back to normal or what month with the ones that are being taken away from her as well. still running away from well clear screens. arrests are most often made for the public consumption of drugs or alcohol. and most of those are native
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australians that we're ready to go. critics say the darwin, police unfairly target aboriginal people with drugs, alcohol, misery in darwin. many aboriginal people seem to be lost between 2 worlds, between their own and the one imposed on them by white settlers colonizing their lands. in the late 18th century, the new arrivals from britain tried to eradicate the aboriginal people. first, they used weapons, then they organized a breed out policy. for decades,
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ruling powers tried to sometimes quite literally whiten the black population. aboriginal children were also forcefully taken from their parents, placed in convents or foster families. they were taught to live like good little white children. this practice continued until the early 19 seventy's. more than 100000 children are believed to have suffered this fate. these young victims are called the stolen generation. and history is repeating itself. why? why do we want hundreds of people take to the streets of sydney to protest the actions of the authorities? they're demanding their children back. why don't we want? why don't we? why? today, aboriginal children are 10 times likely to be removed from their families than white children. half of them are placed in institutions or in white families,
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far away from their own community. hazel collins is a victim of such forced removals. why don't we, why she organized this demonstration outside the regional parliament? this aboriginal grandmother is battling what she considers to be cultural genocide . we want clinical setting up. they did chiding do us as this. c nation paypal. what is best for us? how we should leave? well, they must say, oh thank goodwood ever you big land that are going to ignore a not like us. drill out children want that they call jo. tiger, why they heritage takes them to read something that they're not ah,
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like thousands of other aboriginal families of hollands has been separated from her grandchildren. one of them, ryan was placed with different white families. why? i hoping he'd never mind. a guy, sorry, audio or lame. a mobile. i'm originally my mom had everything kinda well and it all the happy kid until then. no, i come in to fight you from region. are everyone you know that would you please join? how do you mean i'm through them? not i just me. there's a light on our very hard for them because they're drawing up non non in warriors aboriginal. they do repair differently. they are and non just just mom and dad. but as a community i bride that thought the children grow up, losing their identity,
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that i know they're relied to when i come wrong, how long did he stolen? in just 10 years, the number of aboriginal children placed in foster families has doubled to 18000 across the country to get a better understanding of the reality. behind these figures, we're meeting a mother who has been separated from her children for 6 years. she lives in newcastle, a coastal town northeast of sydney were not allowed to show her face that forbidden by australian law. her anonymity preserves the identity of her children. so these pitches of my youngest son and this is one of my daughters when, when she lived with me. and this is my daughter, the actual father was taken. the very last contact that i had with the full kids.
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it sort of makes me sad because even though my daughter's quite happy with the last memory that i had saying my kids together and i know that they were happy to say me and i, when they did say me, her children were all taken away from her because at the time she had a drug problem that was 6 years ago. now she leads a normal life as a job and a house. yet she still forbidden any contact with her children. my children live 20 minutes from me up the road. so i know where my children live, i know what school i go to, so the system will not let me see. my children will not let me speak to my children on the phone. they have completely, ostracize me from my children's life completely. the foster carers have convinced the children that i'm afraid to them. so this is the image that my children have of me. even though i work in child protection. i'm a social worker, i'm so you know,
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a lot of completely turn my life around and it has made no answer difference. like many aboriginal mothers, you know, she was herself removed from her family as a child none of my mother's children were removed. we were all separated in the system. we all ended up with addiction problems, all ended up with incarceration problems at children removed. so the cycle has not been broken. just put under a different policy and called a different 9, but it's the same generational genocidal practices happening. and basically we have no decision making power in this country at all. so we are completely vulnerable to these institutions to exploit our rights. she could very well lose her children forever. their foster families have started adoption proceeding. a law was passed in 2018, allowing them to do so after 5 years of custody. and denying the mother an
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