1992 Paul Keating Speech Summary

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Paul keating speech 1992. Taking children from mothers because of ignorance and prejudice.
Still dealing with ass program.
Color grading indigenous. Colin jones.
Auber Neville. Solve Aboriginal problem, breeding out.
Suicide rate?

P1: Control over indigenous community
The plan of assimilating all indigenous people into white society
Light colored children were removed from their families for the sake of breeding out the indigenous people.

P2: Identify single identity
The spread of the colonists menat they were living closer to indigenous populations which meant half cast babies.
Found the sight of a almost white baby living with indigenous repugnant.
Children removed for breeding out.
Purging aboriginal blood from the system of children by breeding them with white people for 3 generations. Ass policy.
Take a half cast child from their parents and place them in white society to cut them off from their culture family and land.
Socialising children into white culture with no access to their own culture, so they would feel out of place if they returned to their familes. Forced to go to church to worship the white god.
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Children were often brutalised and beaten.
Certificate of exemption was a certificate Aborigines had to apply for a was heavily restricted. It would give the holder rights they did not normally have as an Aboriginal person. They could go to school, vote and drink in the pub. And they were not restricted by state protection laws. The certificate could be taken away without any reason and any hope of getting it back.

To get the certificate they had to abandon their family and culture, and no longer associate with their traditional communities. They were only allowed to contact close family.
To keep the certificate they had to stay away from their communities, keep their houses clean and tidy, refrain from drinking and basically be a law abiding citizen.
P2: Unity in Australian

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