What did the Aboriginal people benefited from stolen generation situation

What did the Aboriginal people benefited from stolen generation situation

The ‘Stolen Generations’ are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who was sustained by the Australian federal and state governments and by church missions from the last century and the nineteen seventies. This policy sought to acculturate such children into European norms and was premised on the notion that Indigenous peoples were somehow ‘backward’. The outcomes of this policy entailed great traumatization and severance with cultural affects. However, where benefits and changes that followed that has stemmed from the recognition of the wrongs done and their redressal are concerned it has not been completely negative.

 Here are some ways Aboriginal people have benefited indirectly or are working towards positive outcomes due to the historical injustices of the Stolen Generations:Here are some ways Aboriginal people have benefited indirectly or are working towards positive outcomes due to the historical injustices of the Stolen Generations:

 Increased Awareness and Apology:

 Benefit: Many a time in the past, the Australian Government has verbally apologized to the people of Australia where the then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd offered a formal apology in 2008 concerning the Stolen Generations. This form of apology has created awareness and actually had the people of the general public gain more information on what Aboriginal people go through.

 Impact: More attention has created better insight into the Aboriginal past and more acceptance of their traditions and better policies and projects.

 Reconciliation Efforts:

 Benefit: The apology and recognition of past misconducts have boosted the process of reconciliation. This has covered a range of activities that seek to address issues of recovery and schooling of Aboriginal people as well as the reconciliation process between the Aboriginal and other Australians.

 Impact: The reconciliation process has play the major role for the enhancement of Aboriginal people’s political and social voice and has lead to the increasing of support for Indigenous peoples right and self-determination.

 Compensation and Support Programs:

 Benefit: Peoples’ relations felt compelled to apologize for the measures that have been taken in the past, and some governments have provided compensation to victims of the stolen generation. It is financial support, counselling, and community reconnection services which these programs provide to these families.

 Impact: This support assists survivors of such a policy in embracing and overcoming the trauma that the policy has brought, as well as making reconnection to the cultural values.

 Strengthened Legal and Policy Frameworks:Strengthened Legal and Policy Frameworks:

 Benefit: Apologizing for the wrongs suffered by the Stolen Generations makes it easier to develop new laws and policies that will safeguard Indigenous people and their rights to ensure that others are not taken away again.

 Impact: Increased legal rights and legislation promote the health and entitled position of the aboriginal citizens.

 Cultural Revival and Education:

 Benefit: Out of the figurative centrality of the Stolen Generations, Aboriginal people have also been able to reclaim their cultures, values and languages. Some of the programs that have been put in place in order to impart knowledge on Aboriginal people include history, cultural practices and the effects of the stolen generations.

 Impact: The given cultural revival contributes to the maintenance of Aboriginal cultural values and increases people’s cultural identity and sustainability of the community.

 Stronger Community Networks:

 Benefit: This has resulted in the establishment of related and supporting networks as well as advocacy groups with a social and political function of defending the rights of the Aboriginal people and fighting the Stolen Generations consequences.

 Impact: These networks are a source of support and enable the aboriginal to be voices for change to solve existing problems in the society.