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RE: Ozzies to Be Fined For Not Vaccinating Kids When the State Wants
I wonder how much of that is because of Aborigine families being separated.
In the US there is a similar trend in that if you are from a black family you are much more likely to be split apart by child welfare services.
That's a good question. I found a newspaper article in the Guardian according to which the number of Aborigine children removed from families and placed with strangers since the year before the prime minister of Australia apologized for the policy of removing children from Aborigine families (2007) and the year before the article was published (2015) has been growing.
I've understood that this was done to Native American communities in the USA but at some point safeguards were put in place in the form of a higher legal threshold for removal.
The same thing has happened everywhere where there are minorities in Western countries including Canada to Inuits and Native Americans. Denmark was at it in Greenland. What the Norway, Sweden and Finland did up to the 1970's was force Sami children to go to boarding schools because schools could or would not be not built close to their homes. The children were forbidden from speaking their native languages at the schools. Because white kids in the Australian outback were allowed to be distance schooled using the radio, it is very clear that the same arrangements could've been made in the Nordic countries. There was clearly a malicious intent to wipe out their cultures at a high cost of human suffering.
(Perhaps it is wise of me to not elaborate what I would do to the people responsible (if alive), if I had to power to do so, on a public immutable blockchain.)