A small glimmer of good news amidst the increasing storm clouds of concern about how the loss of the Community Development Employment Program will make some Indigenous Australian communities unliveable and unviable.
For the first time, an Aboriginal person who was removed from his family as a child has successfully sued a state government for compensation. In the South Australian Supreme Court, Justice Thomas Gray ordered the South Australian Government to pay Bruce Trevorrow $525,000 ‘for injuries, loses and false imprisonment”.
In an earlier Stolen Generation case, the pain that Lorna Cubillo and Peter Gunner endured in telling their stories led nowhere for them. Let’s hope the South Australian Government doesn’t tarnish Trevorrow’s victory by appealing it.
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Here’s hoping the decision results in a number of other successful suits from Stolen Generation victems. Perhaps that would force the government to acknowledge that more needs to be done to redress the wrongs of even the recent past.