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21 U.N.S.W.L.J. 253 (1998)
Compensation for the Stolen Children: Political Judgments and Community Values

handle is hein.journals/swales21 and id is 273 raw text is: Forum - The Stolen Generation: From Removal to Reconciliation COMPENSATION FOR THE STOLEN CHILDREN: POLITICAL JUDGMENTS AND COMMUNITY VALUES REGINA GRAYCAR* Speaking at the launch of the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards on 17 September 1997, author Drusilla Modjeska described the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission (HREOC) report, Bringing them Home,' as the most important - if not the best - book that had been published this cold and chilly winter. Several months have passed since its release and the Commonwealth Government has not yet made a response of any substance, other than to dismiss the suggestion that compensation should be payable to those whose lives were destroyed or fragmented by the practice of taking Aboriginal children away from their families in the name of 'assimilation'. Condoned by governments of the time, this practice has been described by HREOC as constituting genocide. A number of the recommendations of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families focused * Dunhill Madden Butler Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. I should like to thank Michael Chesterman, Suzanne Christie, Margie Cronin, Usa De Ferrari, Peter Hanks, Margaret Harrison and Jenny Morgan for their various comments on, and contributions to, this discussion. I Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Bringing Them Home: Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from their Families, 1997 (hereafter Bringing Them Home). 2 Drusilla Modjeska, A Bitter Wind Beyond the Tree Line, Sydney Morning Herald, 18 September 1997, p 19. 3 Hereafter referred to as the Inquiry. 1998

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