Background
Aboriginal organisations pushed for a national enquiry as early as 1990. The Secretariat of the National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care (‘SNAICC’) resolved at its national conference in 1992 to demand a national enquiry. Other state Aboriginal organisations were also active during this period.
In 1994 the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (ALSWA) began soliciting statements from Aboriginal people who had been removed from their families as children or who were parents of removed children. The service interviewed over 600 people during this time and produced a report titled "Telling our Story".
Read more about this topic: Bringing Them Home
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