Australia In The 1920's and the 1930's

Section A. A Group in the Interwar Period - The Stolen Generation The experience that the aboriginal had was quite significant first of all they were taken from there parents by the order of Government agencies, more than 30,000 children were removed from their parents and families, children and parents would have been crying for each other when this happened between 1900 and 1972. Children of mix decent were most targeted (eg the father is aboriginal and the …

…the family and went on the track (became itinerant workers), or perhaps took to drink. Grown sons sat in the kitchen day after day, playing cards, studying the horses [betting on horse racing] and trying to scrounge enough for a threepenny bet, or engaged in petty crime, mothers cohabited with male boarders who were in work and who might support the family, daughters attempted some amateur prostitution and children were in trouble with the police."