Stolen generations

I asked Lowitja O’Donoghue why she’d lived the life she had. She replied, ‘Because I loved my people’ | Stuart Rintoul

Like Aboriginal children the country over, she was raised to be a servant. She wanted more, declaring: ‘I decided that I wanted to be somebody’

Stuart Rintoul

04, Feb, 2024 @2:00 PM

Lowitja O’Donoghue: formidable advocate for Aboriginal Australians who overcame adversity and prejudice

Stolen from her mother at the age of two, O’Donoghue became a nationally admired leader and champion for the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

Jennifer King

04, Feb, 2024 @4:00 AM

Lowitja O’Donoghue, celebrated campaigner for Aboriginal Australians, dies aged 91

A member of the stolen generations, the Yankunytjatjara leader was only reunited with her mother through a chance meeting 30 years later

Josh Butler and Daisy Dumas

04, Feb, 2024 @3:07 AM

Women & Children by Tony Birch review – a new high for the master craftsman

In his beautiful and forthright new book, Birch brings a tender simplicity to his characters in a story about the trauma of violence – and the power of family

Joseph Cummins

16, Nov, 2023 @2:00 PM

Myth, politics and murder: why the voice battle in Tasmania is different

A bloody colonial past and Liberal support for a yes vote inform the debate in the only state where the campaign in favour has recently remained ahead

Cait Kelly

29, Sep, 2023 @3:00 PM

Chris Minns open to funding investigation into possible secret graves at Kinchela Aboriginal boys’ home

Labor vows to take further action if potential burial sites at other stolen generations-era institutions are uncovered

Tamsin Rose

13, Sep, 2023 @3:00 PM

Hundreds of Aboriginal children likely buried in unmarked graves at three WA missions

Exclusive: More than 740 First Nations people, the majority of them very young, are believed to have been buried with no record at Moore River, Carrolup and New Norcia

Sarah Collard and Lorena Allam

09, Sep, 2023 @8:00 PM

‘Those kids belong to somebody’: elders demand truth about unmarked Aboriginal graves

Terrible conditions at Western Australia’s missions led to devastating loss and trauma. Calls are growing to investigate hundreds of graves and burial sites

Sarah Collard and Lorena Allam, with photography by Blake Sharp-Wiggins

09, Sep, 2023 @8:00 PM

Beaten, abused, bullied, starved: stories of survival of Kinchela Aboriginal boys’ home

For more than four decades, hundreds of children were incarcerated under Stolen Generations policies in the notorious institution near Kempsey. Only 56 are still alive. Here, six survivors tell their stories

Interviews by Lorena Allam and Sarah Collard

07, Sep, 2023 @8:49 PM

Linda Burney calls for investigation into possible secret burial sites at Stolen Generations institution

Minister for Indigenous Australians says claims of potential ‘clandestine’ burials at former Kinchela Aboriginal Boys Training are ‘deeply disturbing’

Lorena Allam and Sarah Collard

07, Sep, 2023 @3:00 PM

Ground-penetrating radar: how the discovery of ‘clandestine’ anomalies could reveal buried truths

GPR technology is becoming more widespread in Australia and overseas to detect potential unmarked graves and human burial sites

Sarah Collard and Lorena Allam

07, Sep, 2023 @3:06 AM

Who are the Stolen Generations and what has happened to them?

Under Australia’s assimilation laws, as many as one in three Indigenous children were removed from their families in the 60 years between 1910 and 1970. The intergenerational impact has been devastating