High Court Question Poem by Frances Macaulay Forde
High Court Question
How can money recompense
all those stolen years?
Memories don't have a price.
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In Australia, the High Court met to discuss compensation for the Aboriginals whose land was taken over by foreign settlers.
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5/2/2024 5:37:35 AM # 1.0.0.1119
'Stolen' refers also to the Stolen Generation. The foreigners in the 'wisdom' thought the children of Aboriginals and European settlers, would be better off taken from their mothers/parents and raised in European families... hence the stolen generation.