Essentially a form of cultural "ethnic cleansing", where half-caste Aboriginal babies were taken from their families, sent to orphanages, and raised as cleaners and/or domestic servants for whites. Genuinely disturbing, but also extremely divisive and overhyped.
Again, for a number of decades, Britain, in this case, sent (at least) ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND children, who had already been separated from their unmarried mothers (see above), over to Australia and, very importantly, Canada, to live in orphanages and "homes", and later serve as a domestic labour source. They were abused, disturbed, and many, many died.
Etc, etc. Rinse, repeat. You could literally study "institutional child abuse" in this country FOR YEARS, without even truly scratching the surface. And so it continues, on and on forever (Don Dale, Ashley, Salvation Army, YMCA, electrocution of child in public housing. There's some more leads, if you wish to look further).
Let's take a (selective) tour of 20th Century Australian history, regarding children, shall we..?
This gets more disturbing the more you look into it.
First we have this, which continued for at least half a century, if not longer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_adoption_in_Australia
Most of the "victims", let's say, were unmarried mothers and their children. Supposedly this shit ended decades ago, but clearly, uhh, it hasn't.
Then we have this, which is the most talked about, and "scandalous" of these: https://www.sbs.com.au/nitv/explainer/explainer-stolen-generations
Essentially a form of cultural "ethnic cleansing", where half-caste Aboriginal babies were taken from their families, sent to orphanages, and raised as cleaners and/or domestic servants for whites. Genuinely disturbing, but also extremely divisive and overhyped.
Next, we have what I would probably argue is the most disturbing of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Children
Again, for a number of decades, Britain, in this case, sent (at least) ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND children, who had already been separated from their unmarried mothers (see above), over to Australia and, very importantly, Canada, to live in orphanages and "homes", and later serve as a domestic labour source. They were abused, disturbed, and many, many died.
Finally, we have this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampa_affair and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children_Overboard_affair, where the Australian government's treatment of refugee children at sea resulted in international diplomatic incidents, in the early 2000s. Fucking awful. Because we never fucking learn...
Etc, etc. Rinse, repeat. You could literally study "institutional child abuse" in this country FOR YEARS, without even truly scratching the surface. And so it continues, on and on forever (Don Dale, Ashley, Salvation Army, YMCA, electrocution of child in public housing. There's some more leads, if you wish to look further).