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nothing new for the can film festival, but the balancing act has probably never been as tricky as in 2022 and that's all for now after the break it a doubly documentary racism down under looks at violence directed an aboriginal australia stayed with us for that don't forget you can get all the news around the clock at d. w dot com. the handle you made made wild for socials, is at d. w. news on anthony howard in berlin. we more news headlines in 45 minutes. talk . stay with imagine how many portion of lunch are thrown out in the world. climate change can be very off the story. this is my plan, the way from just one week. how much work can really get we still have time to go. i'm going all with
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what 5th i on march on the streets of sydney. 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. who said that 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
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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. he resists the letters served to identify the guards. 2 a 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. neighborhood
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either. yeah. no hell, you know, it took family lawyers months to obtain this video. no one has yet been held accountable. now they've gone all at, at some roy's roy to reflect what they do every don't label. it wasn't fighting. they just rammed in only all 6 of them. pulverized him is flies the squashed in. when he come on demand a balsam that i brought that i had upon that i shall be taught 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 people you need to make out, you know, as die that die less than,
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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 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. but 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
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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 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 in got howard do is 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 as person i think i believe and i said well can for you and i are late 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,
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or those who are muslim are worried. they're unsettled by increasing anti immigrant sentiment in certain sectors of society. mainly it's, 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 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, 20. 19 and australian white supremacist murdered. 51 muslims at
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a mosque in christ church. new zealand. 49. others were seriously injured. australia's minorities live in fear their especially critical of the countries justice system. it's 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 toby's all of the judges made an example on the expenses made it 23 months ago. i i this is 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 back goes in and that childhood was difficult,
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marred by poverty, drugs, and bad influences. he ran afoul of the law as a minor prison was hell. this is in october 2010 to 12 years old. and this is the thing, right. and that this is the person that sell to me was another indigenous male officer. we exchange words a charged santa spot on and, 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 restaurants here for about 2 and a half, 3 hours. i'm because i spat on please us better present offices before being
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manhandled from bigger people than me. i couldn't far back, i couldn't push the loft method that i wanted to. i knew ways that i could really get back to them, make them angry, make them feel of the way i'm feeling while they're doing that sort of stuff. to me, 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 last written off youth. why would you definitely think there is a right. it's yeah, lifelong, it does go to indigenous people with the really, with nothing about rehabilitating to chime. my gosh young people are better people with more met trying to break us and john upon us. that's 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
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. nationalist xenophobic groups agitate against muslims. first and foremost, fraser adding is the country's most controversial politician in the wake of the christ church attack. his comments trigger a wave of outrage. this video goes viral. the sort of things happen when people are getting attacked, you know, a frequent grabanko 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
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solution with 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 lies. i can tell you. and i mean, i fight hard for 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 reduced immigration and to permanently ban muslims from entering the country. there hasn't been a country on this planet that embrace the muslims and had them come in here that is
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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 it so that i'm being called a racist. and i'm happy to be called rice if that's what they want to call me. that's fine. what's the band muslim? immigration, me personally, i would identify them because they 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 good. a strain is not i think we need to proposals, rooted in hatred and fake news only for people in australia have ever been killed in attacks by islamist terrorists. a very, very lot endings program. fines resonance is the only like the may did leave it like i love 1st and foremost, immigration policy and 2nd, 8 tied into that is it is, is try you. good. and,
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and it needs to be yes. has tried it and not the rest of the world, but we need to solve a lot of problems. first, i fries or any would destroy your industry, millions versus that's more in the election results come in a few days later. unfortunately 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.
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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 won. this was a place that was defined by diseases of white racial integrity. the advent of 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
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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 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 to sell
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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. christina, these dian islam is growing. why is it because people are struggling to judge and texas, i mean soul and they have gone into mosque all over europe. we see them if you get the message, then what a standing go to watch. we don't watch the new destination and this did the enemy office, does it with that? says ungodliness, not a style. i'm gotten this and the little come against it deck, right? no, no need for something to happen. often schooling daniel ny leah was persecuted in sri lanka for belonging to a christian minority and sought refuge in australia 22 years ago. he soon became an
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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 lloyd with his love gone, ranita ne, their consent was supposed to been cut off. the st. isn't as well as the senator, because my skin color wasn't advantage for me. i thought a thing i would sat upon to have body, like we satirized people street on the split up of us who, dec. oh my god. so lisa, 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
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a free and democratic society. every most is potentia, place for terrorism to breed. unfortunately destitute shall who oppose to mos looting, thus be pushing the field the dose, no need for more. moscow abused in australia, i despite pastor ny leah and his message. there are now several 100 mosques in australia. most of australia's 600000 muslims live in sydney. 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,
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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. yes. yeah. who's you father was then i could come here every night. yes. okay, good on was on love. some household 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 definitive 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 their 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. sidney and association is working to dismantle that
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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 ha. i was born in the country. my parents came here in, i, you gotta make me choke. my parents came here in the seventy's and um they came from a one time country. the fact that i was allowed 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. australia gave us so much. i wanted me and the muslims that have migrated to his country, bonnie's country to give back to this beautiful country quarter stria. like shoves parents, many of australia's muslims arrived in the 1970s. but for them and subsequent
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generations. integration remains difficult. dealing with prejudice is part of everyday life. for sure. many times, many times 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 here. oh, where do you want me to go? what we gotta do our 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 got a want to think what, what a wonder assigned to a 9 understand that not old good old. on play.
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not all. the better. a positive example that counters the slogans of a racist minority. the christ church attack was perpetrated by brenton 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
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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 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 on our locations secret. this is where the lad society usually meets. in this video, the organization is presented as an ordinary private sports club for men only. in
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reality, it's a secret society with very clear political objectives. with so many country, fearing what they call the great replacement 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,
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and drugs. it's also experienced police violence and riots. the streets of redfern became a bloody battlefield on the 14th of february, 2004, 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 muskets is going to be a slip to 7 o'clock in the morning. his afternoon. fourish 3 are to be picked up at
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5 o'clock. we want them to learn about the strength of lp. one of the long route chain and discipline and focus and doing this early in the morning. lots of government programs and also the program i've driven by deficits to what's wrong with family programs designed by us. and it's driven by strength as what these kids, again, 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
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a 2 year sentence for robbery atmosphere with getting the routine dissipated types of model. stop them outside and with a few years ago, police and indigenous youngsters would regularly clash in redfern. so to ease tensions, shane invited the chief of police to put gloves on superintendent andrew holland and his men now come every week to train with local youngsters, with
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crime has dropped 70 per cent in redfern since 2010. sidney's, former slum is slowly getting back on its feet. while many indigenous people struggled to find a place in society, others have achieved success. miriam corolla is a prime example, daughter of an aboriginal mother and an english father. she has become a household name as
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a journalist. hello. marian 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 and where i am. you can have an idea of what you want to do. but sometimes you might be reluctant to give it a go. so it's always nice to think that you can help people understand that it's not impossible. it is still unusual to see average and people on t. v. craig, her director has worked for a b, c for 20 years. but he has rarely worked with native australia these days. we are seeing a little more diversity. miriam is still very much an exception. known it, it is getting better. and certainly it's getting better in the media as opposed to
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say drama for instance, which is still very much a typical more just try to look miriam as a respected journalist to day. but her career has been an uphill struggle. if i hadn't this to be able to find that discrimination at school, bullying, racism and things like that. i wouldn't have gone on to finish high school because i wouldn't have gone on to universe. and without those things, then my options are even having and korea would be really, really limited. censored 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,
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my dad's aboriginal and human studies background, irish and german. so it's quite fair with blue eyes and everything i just saw, all as funny why that's kinda cure you know, because he doesn't associate with a particular appearance. miriam grew up in the 1970s. in those days, 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 to universe fee a work in the media. you know, i don't leave necessarily in a community such and those sorts of things that people typically associated weeping operational. i'm not necessarily fitting that box,
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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, we still have extraordinary problems. we've in our economic disadvantage, we've 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.
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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 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 lay rocky, a nation after the regions largest tribe. kyle and his partner patrol the streets every day. i guess come in from the communities and sometimes on the house. you know they come here so which
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city area? well, my wallclear over there. yeah. morning. how are you, brother? i'm well, thank you. mark nation. you ok on the streets today. 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, since he's been years, 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
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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, america, available soon as we stop taking them away. we'll come and pick you up in a thank you for on just i put you out bra. kevin has been doing this for 20 years. it will. 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 get back to normal or what month with,
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well ones that are being taken away from her. what and well still running away from well for arrests are most often made for the public consumption of drugs or alcohol. and most of those are native 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
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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, 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 do we want hundreds of people take to the streets of sydney to protest the actions of the authorities?
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they're demanding their children back. why don't we want? why don't we? why? today, aboriginal children are 10 times are likely to be removed from their families than white children. half of them are placed in institutions or in white families, 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
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goodwood ever you babe land that are going to ignore a not like us during land. children want that they called you tiger. why they heritage takes them to read something that they're not ah, 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? by simply hoping he'd never mind. a guy, sorry, audio or lima, mobile adam originally mama had everything to well and they don't have the kid until then. now they 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 engines in warriors aboriginal. they do repair differently. rivera and
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non just just mom and dad. but as a community i bride that thought the children grow up, losing their i didn't that i know they're related to when i come from hall on did he stole 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
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children. so they 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. 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 leave, 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,
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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. so you know, 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
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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 and opportunity to appeal i it school and we wonder which industries are profiting from it? are we on the verge of the global upheaval? and what would that mean? let's take a closer look with
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