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2007 Conference: Ten years later: Bringing them home and the Forced Removal of Children

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice
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Conference: Friday 28 September 2007

Ten years later: Bringing them home and the Forced Removal of Children

In April 1997 the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity

Commission released Bringing them home. The report

followed a two-year National Inquiry into the Separation

of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from

Their Families.

It is now ten years since this landmark report was

completed. Separate to the Inquiry, there has been over

a decade and a half of litigation aimed at providing

compensation for Indigenous people removed under

previous government policies. Although there have been

some successes, to date litigation has not provided a

resolution to the harms caused by forcible removal.

The Indigenous Law Centre and the Crime and Justice

Research Network at the UNSW, in conjunction with

the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission,

 hosted a one-day conference to mark the tenth

anniversary of Bringing them home.

Date: Friday, 28 September 2007

Venue: The Barnet Long Room

Customs House, Circular Quay, Sydney

Further information: download brochure (PDF).

Website: www.ilc.unsw.edu.au