Aged care needs of Australia's Stolen Generations raised in royal commission report

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Updated March 12 2021 - 2:06pm, first published 11:00am
Government must address the aged care needs of Stolen Generations: Fiona Petersen.
Government must address the aged care needs of Stolen Generations: Fiona Petersen.

Between 1910 and the 1970s, about 10 per cent of 10 Aboriginal children were stolen from their families, communities, and cultures and placed in institutions or adopted by non-Indigenous families.

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Eileen Wood

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