Peter Andren (Calare, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

to move:

That the House:

(1)

notes that:

(a)

26 May 2007 marks the tenth anniversary of the Bringing Them Home report;

(b)

most of the recommendations of the report have been ignored by successive Coalition governments;

(c)

medical evidence shows that many indigenous children who were removed from their families have been severely affected, with that effect carrying on to following generations;

(d)

the Urbis Keys Young report established by the Government has revealed that some Bringing Them Home and Link-Up counselors are struggling to cope with up to more than 80 clients each, compared with the average caseload of 25 for a mental health worker in mainstream services;

(e)

the same report described the Government response to the needs of the Stolen Generation as “poorly coordinated and insufficiently targeted”; and

(f)

the Canadian Government has implemented measures totaling $4.8 billion dollars to address its equivalent of the Stolen Generations, with 50 per cent for compensation for those indigenous children held in institutions over many years, as well as an Aboriginal Healing Foundation and Truth and Reconciliation Commission; and

(2)   calls on the current and any future Government to immediately implement measures to address the continuing adverse social, physical and mental health outcomes impacting on the Stolen Generation and subsequent generations.

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